It included $39 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). House and Senate Consideration

On June 20, 2008 , the Transportation-HUD subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations approved a draft FY2009 HUD appropriations bill by voice vote. According to a press release issued by the subcommittee, the draft bill included the following:
$110 million for new incremental vouchers: $75 million to fund 10,000 new housing vouchers for homeless veterans and $30 million for 4,000 new housing vouchers for the disabled; $75 million for foreclosure counseling and assistance to assist more than 200,000 families at risk of losing their homes; $1.69 billion for Homeless Assistance Grants ($55 million above the President's request); $4 billion for Community Development Block Grants ($1 billion above the President's request); $765 million for housing for the elderly ($225 million above the Administration's request) and $250 million for disabled housing ($90 million above the President's request); and $4.5 billion for the public housing operating account, $2.5 billion for the public housing capital account, and $120 million for HOPE VI (combined, $896 million more than the Presidents' request for the public housing accounts). On July 10, 2008 , the Senate Committee on Appropriations approved its version of the FY2009 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill, following subcommittee approval the previous day ( S. 3261 ). Continuing Resolution, Emergency Funding and Stimulus Legislation

On September 30, 2008 , President Bush signed a continuing resolution (CR) funding most government agencies—including HUD—at their FY2008 levels ( P.L. 110-329 ). Division B of the act provided FY2008 emergency supplemental disaster funding, including: 
$85 million to provide new Section 8 vouchers to households affected by the 2005 hurricanes; $50 million in new project-based Section 8 vouchers to be used in areas affected by the 2005 hurricanes; $15 million to redevelop public housing developments damaged by the 2005 hurricanes; and $6.5 billion in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for communities affected by presidentially declared disasters declared in 2008. 1 , an economic stimulus plan, which included emergency supplemental funding for several HUD programs. Congress did not enact final appropriations before the expiration of the CR, so a second CR was enacted on March 6, 2009 . Surplus FHA funds have been used to offset the cost of the HUD budget. As a result, the increase in total non-emergency budget authority for HUD from FY2002-FY2008 is not fully attributable to increases in appropriations for HUD's programs and activities; rather, part of the increase in total budget authority is attributable to decreases in the amount available in offsetting receipts. For example, in FY2007, Congress provided $39 billion in regular appropriations for HUD's programs and activities. The 110 th Congress adjourned before work on the FY2009 appropriations acts was complete. That CR was extended through March 11, 2009. On March 11, 2009, a FY2009 omnibus appropriations bill was signed into law, funding HUD for the remainder of the fiscal year ( P.L. 111-8 ). In FY2008, Congress enacted a rescission from the advance appropriations provided in FY2007 for use in FY2008. 111-5 ). HOPE VI

In each budget since FY2003, President Bush requested no new funding for the HOPE VI public housing revitalization program. It also extends the program through the end of FY2009. In addition to requesting reduced funding for CDBG formula grants, the Administration's FY2009 budget proposed eliminating funding for several other community development related programs, including Rural Housing and Economic Development Grants, Community Development Block Grant Section 108 loan guarantees, and Brownfields Economic Development Initiatives. The Bush Administration's FY2009 budget—as in previous years—recommended termination of the Brownfields Redevelopment program. §1701q) and the Section 811 Housing for Persons with Disabilities program (42 U.S.C. President Bush's FY2009 budget requested $51 million for the fair housing programs, an increase of $1 million over the FY2008 level. HUD Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009 ( P.L. The bill provided over $300 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations.
The FY2009 appropriations process began with President Bush's FY2009 budget request. It included $39 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an increase of 4% in net budget authority from the FY2008 non-emergency level. That requested increase in net budget authority was largely attributable to a decline in the amount available to offset the HUD budget. The President's budget request would have resulted in an overall decline in appropriations for HUD's programs and activities of just over 1% from the FY2008 level.
Despite the request for an overall decline in appropriations for HUD's programs and activities, the President's FY2009 budget did request increased appropriations in several areas, including project-based Section 8 rental assistance, the HOME Investment Partnerships block grant program, and Homeless Assistance grants. The President's FY2009 budget requested reductions in funding for several programs, including the Section 202 Housing for the Elderly program and the Section 811 Housing for Persons with Disabilities program. It proposed eliminating funding for several programs that were funded in FY2008, including the HOPE VI public housing revitalization program, the Brownfields Redevelopment program, Section 108 loan guarantees, and the Rural Housing and Economic Development block grant program. President Bush had also requested no new funding for each of these programs in his FY2004-FY2008 budget requests, although Congress continued to fund them in each of those years.
On June 20, 2008, the Transportation-HUD Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations approved a draft FY2009 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill. The text of that bill was never released. On July 9, 2008, the Transportation-HUD Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations approved its version of the FY2009 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill; the bill was approved the following day (July 10, 2008) by the Senate Committee on Appropriations (S. 3261). On September 30, 2009, President Bush signed a continuing resolution funding most government agencies, including HUD, at their FY2008 levels through March 6, 2009 (P.L. 110-329). The CR also provided $150 million in emergency supplemental assisted housing funds for use in areas affected by the 2005 hurricanes and $6.5 billion in emergency supplemental CDBG funding to be used to respond to presidentially declared disasters that took place in 2008.
The final FY2009 appropriations legislation was not enacted before the close of the 110th Congress and the end of the Bush Administration. The 111th Congress enacted a second continuing resolution before the expiration of the first, providing funding through March 11, 2009.
On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5). Among other provisions, the bill contained emergency supplemental FY2009 funding for several HUD accounts.
On March 11, 2009, the regular FY2009 appropriations process was completed when an omnibus appropriations bill was signed into law (P.L. 111-8). It provided $41.5 billion for HUD, an increase of 10% in net budget authority from the FY2008 non-emergency level.