US Federal housing expenditures: Difference between revisions

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The often-stated claims of Federal funding being only 1/3 of pre-1980 levels, or being cut 75% or 80%, appear to come from references to HUD Budget Authority, which is the sum of all future contracted spending. This dropped sharply after the 1970s due to HUD moving from very long-term contracts towards short-term; see [https://www.yimby.wiki/wiki/US_Federal_housing_expenditures#HUD_Budget_Outlays_vs_Budget_Authority HUD Budget Outlays vs Budget Authority] section below for further discussion. 
 
Another point of view is that the Federal government has effectively withdrawn or disinvested from regulated-affordable housing because a) it has not nearly met the much-increased need, which it pledged to do for example with&nbsp;the [https://www.yimby.wiki/wiki/Right_to_housing#Preamble_to_the_1949_Housing_Act.C2.A0 1949 Housing Act]; or b) it has cut back substantially on rate of creating new housing, compared to the 1968-78 period,; c) much public housing has been lost by disrepair or conversion, ;&nbsp;and d) increasingly expenditure is consumed by maintenance rather than new housing.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;
 
== NLIHC (2002) study ==
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