1.4M of the nation’s poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump’s proposed HUD time limit
July 16, 2025
A Trump administration proposal could put more than a million low-income households at risk of losing their government-subsidized housing. That’s according to new research from New York University, obtained by The Associated Press. The study suggests a proposed two-year time limit on federal housing subsidies could affect as many as 1.4 million households in public housing and Section 8 programs. White House officials argue that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s rental assistance programs are broken and wasteful, because federal subsidies were never meant to be permanent. Researchers say limiting the time people get help would disproportionally impact working families with children, which could affect more than 1 million kids.
