Last week, President Joe Biden sent the administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2022 discretionary funding request to Congress. The HUD budget requests $68.7 billion, a $9 billion or 15-percent increase from the 2021 enacted level. The funding request does not include line-by-line program requests, but rather requests for a few key HUD programs. A full budget request is expected later this spring. Here’s what we know so far:
| FY 2022 President Request | FY 2021 Enacted | |
| Tenant Based Rental Assistance | $30.4 B | $25.8 B |
| Homeless Assistance Grants | $3.5 B | $3 B |
| Public Housing Capital Fund | $3.2 B | $2.9 B |
| CDBG | $3.8 B | $3.5 B |
| HOME | $1.9 B | $1.35 B |
| Healthy Homes & Lead Hazard | $400 M | $360 M |
| Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity | $85 M | $72.5 M |
The additional voucher funding is expected to extend Housing Vouchers to 200,000 more families, including funding for mobility-related supportive services to provide low-income families who live in racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty with greater options to move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods.
The budget calls for $180 million to support 2,000 units of new permanently affordable housing for the elderly and persons with disabilities, though we do not yet know the split between Section 202 and Section 811. The president requests $800 million for modernization and rehabilitation aimed at energy efficiency and resilience to climate change impacts, such as increasingly frequent and severe floods, in HUD-assisted housing. In the Department of Energy, the budget requests $400 million for the weatherization of low-income homes.
