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What’s Happened With Housing Since Trump Came Into Office

Our running list of major federal housing actions since Jan. 20.

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On April 30, we published a roundup, organized by category, of the major housing and community development–related actions and changes we’d seen in the first 100 days of this administration. Given just how much is happening, and how quickly, we will be updating the document regularly, at least while the ground continues to shift under everyone’s feet so constantly.

As we said in the introduction to the first version, “In the short term, the many abrupt changes, payment disruptions, and legal limbo have left tenants and housing providers in a state of deep uncertainty. In the long term, the scale of the cuts portends a devastating loss of knowledge, infrastructure, and resources in the housing sector, with a resultant rise in housing costs, homelessness, and housing discrimination.” But we are also tracking the pushback against this devastating agenda, and the wins, when they happen.

Read the most recent version of the roundup. If you have updates or additions to suggest, let us know at [email protected]. And send us your ideas for state and local actions that are being taken or could be taken to ameliorate these federal actions.

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