FY2007 Appropriations Bill Enacted

On February 15, 2007, President Bush signed a revised yearlong continuing resolution into law ( P.L. 110-5 ). Those exceptions include funding a number of HUD programs at levels higher than those enacted in FY2006:
Tenant Based Rental Assistance: $15,920 million Project-Based Rental Assistance: $5,976 million Public Housing Operating Fund: $3,864 million Indian Housing Loan Guarantee: $6 million Homeless Assistance Grants: $1,442 million Salaries and Expenses: the FY2006 levels, plus such sums as necessary to meet 50% of the need for cost-of-living increases for federal employees
The act funds three HUD accounts below their FY2006 level:
Self Help Homeownership: $49 million Research and Technology: $50 million Community Development Fund: $3,772 million
The decrease in funding for the Community Development Fund does not decrease funding for the primary program funded by the account, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. House Passage

On June 14, 2006, the House passed its version of the FY2007 Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill ( H.R. President's Budget Submitted

The President submitted his FY2007 budget to the Congress on February 6, 2006, requesting $34.1 billion for HUD. Congress also rejected major cuts requested by the President for the Section 811 Housing for the Disabled program and the HOPE VI program. HUD's FY2007 budget summary states that the budget intends to use "taxpayer money more wisely," and "reform programs in need of repair." Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Section 8 Vouchers)

The tenant-based rental assistance account funds the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program. Budgets would have then been prorated to fit within the amount appropriated. Agencies would have continued to be prohibited from overleasing. The FY2007 supplemental funding bill ( H.R. The House-passed and Senate committee-passed bills would have funded the President's request for contract administrators, and the CR funds contract administrators at the FY2006 level, which is the same as the President's request. Capital Fund

The President's FY2007 budget proposed an 11% reduction for the public housing Capital Fund. The President's budget for FY2007 proposed to increase funding for HOPWA to just over $300 million. Congress rejected the proposal and appropriated $4.2 billion for the seven HUD programs that would have been eliminated, including $3.7 billion in CDBG funding. 5576 . On July 26, 2006, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported its version of H.R. This is just under $6 million more than appropriated in FY2006 or recommended by the House, and would have been used to fund several initiatives proposed for elimination in the President's budget and the House bill. However, while the Administration's budget proposal contained funding for two new programs—the Samaritan Initiative and the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative—the House version of the HUD funding bill did not contain funding for these two programs. Housing Programs for the Elderly and the Disabled

Formerly known together as Housing for Special Populations, the Section 202 housing for the elderly program and the Section 811 housing for the disabled program provide capital grants and ongoing project rental assistance contracts (PRAC) to developers of new subsidized housing for these populations. In FY2007, for the second year in a row, the Administration's budget proposed to cut in half funding for the Section 811 program, to $119 million from $237 million in FY2006. 5576 would have slightly increased funding over the House-passed version, and would have provided $5 million for new vouchers. It was not enacted before the end of the 109 th Congress. FHAP provides grants to state and local agencies to enforce laws that are substantially equivalent to the federal Fair Housing Act.
On February 6, 2006, the President submitted his FY2007 budget to the Congress. It proposed funding the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at $34.1 billion, just over the FY2006 level (not including FY2006 supplementals related to Hurricane Katrina). HUD's FY2007 budget summary stated that the budget intended to use "taxpayer money more wisely" and "reform programs in need of repair."
The President's budget would have increased funding for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program from $15.4 billion in FY2006 to $15.9 billion in FY2007. It proposed to reduce funding to the Public Housing Capital Fund to $2.2 billion from the $2.4 billion that was appropriated for FY2006. The proposed budget also would have eliminated funding for public housing's HOPE VI program, which replaces distressed public housing units with new or rehabilitated mixed-income developments. Within the community development programs, the President's FY2007 budget proposed cutting funding to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program by nearly 20% from the FY2006 level. CDBG provides grants to states and localities to use for housing and community development projects. The FY2007 budget proposal would have increased funding for the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program from $286 million to $300 million and the HOME program from $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion. Additionally, it would have increased funding for the four Homeless Assistance Grants by $209 million, and provided funding for two new initiatives: the Samaritan Initiative for the chronically homeless and the Prisoner Re-entry Initiative. The President's budget proposed to cut in half funding for the Section 811 Housing for the Disabled program, as proposed in FY2006. The FY2007 budget would have provided $119 million for Section 811, down from $237 million in FY2006. Funding for the Section 202 Housing for the Elderly program would have been reduced from just under $735 million to $546 million, a drop of 25.7%.
The House passed its version of the HUD funding bill on June 14, 2006 (H.R. 5576). It funded most programs at or near the President's requested level, although it increased funding for the Section 8 voucher program, CDBG, and the Section 202 Housing for the Elderly and Section 811 Housing for the Disabled programs. The Senate Appropriations Committee passed its version of H.R. 5576 on July 20, 2006. It would have provided over $2 billion more for HUD than the President's request and the House bill, increased funding for Public Housing and restored funding for programs slated for elimination, including HOPE VI.
Since the majority of the FY2007 appropriations bills were not approved before the end of FY2006, Congress enacted a series of stop-gap funding measures, or continuing resolutions, to maintain government operations. On February 15, 2007, Congress approved a revised yearlong continuing resolution, funding most accounts at their FY2006 level (P.L. 110-5). Congress is also considering FY2007 supplemental appropriations that may make changes to HUD funding (H.R. 1591). This report will be updated to reflect legislative activity.