To Leaders Thune and Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Leader Jeffries: We, the 1,573 undersigned national, state, and local organizations, write to oppose efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Secretary Scott Turner to terminate at least half of all employees at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This is a catastrophic staffing cut to an agency that has struggled with a severe staffing shortage for many years. Without adequate staffing at HUD, states and communities will face new barriers to accessing the critical federal resources they need to pay the rent, build affordable housing, address homelessness, recover from disasters, revitalize distressed communities, promote homeownership, enforce fair housing laws, and more. Rather than improving efficiency, such drastic staffing cuts at HUD will cause significant, harmful, and costly delays and will worsen America’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis, as well as its significant disaster recovery needs.
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