	Introduction to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Most of the funding for the activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) comes from discretionary appropriations provided each year in the annual appropriations acts enacted by Congress. These include several programs of rental assistance for persons who are poor, elderly, and/or have disabilities. 111-5 ) provided over $13 billion to HUD's programs. 3288 would have provided a more than 11% increase in regular annual appropriations for HUD programs, 3% more than the President's request. These overall funding levels are about 1% higher than President Obama requested. Key Budget Issues, FY2010

		New Administration "Crosscutting" Initiatives

The FY2010 budget was the first of the Obama Administration. The Senate-passed version included funding for all three components of the President's Energy Innovation Fund, but at a lower level than requested. 3288 proposed funding the President's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative at the requested level, and did not include new funding for the HOPE VI program. In S.Rept. 3288 and the final statute also included increased funding for HUD's Fair Housing programs and increased funding for hiring staff, as requested by the President. However, it is the amount provided by the bill that determines the relevant program level. H.Rept. Both the House-passed and Senate-passed bills would have increased funding above the President's requested level, but not to the level requested by advocates. President Obama's FY2010 budget requested $142 million (6%) less than was provided through the regular annual appropriations in FY2009, not counting the additional $4 billion in emergency supplemental capital grants that were also provided in FY2009 through the economic stimulus law ( P.L. See Table 7 for the FY2010 funding levels enacted in P.L. It appropriated $4.450 billion for CDF activities, including $3.990 billion for formula-based grants to states and local governments. 111-117 includes $150 million in funding for the Administration's new multipronged Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI). This is $3 million more than requested by the Administration. Unlike the Administration, which requested no new funding for the Housing Assistance Council (HAC), the House bill recommended an appropriation of $5 million for the program while the Senate version of H.R. NeighborWorks is not funded as part of the HUD budget; it receives its own appropriation as a related agency in the HUD funding bill. The House Committee-passed bill provided $70 million in funding for HUD's housing counseling program, a $5 million increase over the FY2009 appropriation but $30 million less than the President's budget request. This language was retained in the final version of the bill, P.L. Related Legislation

Jobs for Main Street Act
On December 16, 2009, the House of Representatives passed a substitute amendment to H.R.
President Obama's first budget request included over $45 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in FY2010. The requested funding level was roughly $4 billion more than was provided in regular annual appropriations in FY2009 by P.L. 111-8. However, it is about $9 billion less than total FY2009 funding for HUD, if the more than $13 billion in emergency economic stimulus funding provided by P.L. 111-5 is taken into account.
This budget request included increased funding for most HUD programs, such as the Section 8 voucher program, public housing program, housing programs for persons who are elderly or disabled, and block grant programs for states and localities. It also proposed several new initiatives focused on Administration priorities related to information technology and research capacity, energy efficiency, and distressed communities.
On July 23, 2009, the House passed its version of the FY2010 HUD funding bill (H.R. 3288). It included increases in funding over the President's requested level for many HUD programs. It did not fund all of the President's new initiatives, citing a need for authorizing legislation (H.Rept. 111-218). In total, the House-passed bill would have provided almost $1.6 billion (3.4%) more in new appropriations for HUD than the President requested.
On August 5, 2009, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported its version of H.R. 3288 (S.Rept. 111-69). Like the House-passed version, it included increases in funding for many HUD programs. It also included funding for some, but not all, of the President's new initiatives. The bill would have included about $1.2 billion less in new appropriations for HUD than the House-passed bill, but $343 million (0.7%) more than the President's request. On September 17, 2009, the bill was approved by the full Senate, with several policy-related amendments, none of which affected funding levels.
Because most of the annual appropriations bills were not enacted before the start of the 2010 fiscal year, Congress approved a series of short-term continuing resolutions (CR) to maintain funding for government operations.
On December 16, 2009, President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-117) into law, funding HUD and most other government agencies for the remainder of FY2010. The act provided a higher overall funding level for HUD than requested by the President, and higher than proposed by the Senate, but lower than proposed by the House. It funded versions of several of the Obama Administration's new initiatives, including the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative and the Energy Innovation Fund.
This report analyzes recent trends in the HUD budget and tracks legislative action and summarizes key budget issues in the FY2010 budget process.