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Budget Proposal To Cut HUD Funding To Affect Communities Across U.S.

The U.S. office of Housing and Urban Development has seen its funding cut drastically, and a budget proposal has the Senate calling for reducing money to the program by $88 million. The House wants to drop $118 million from HUD.

Whatever reduction ultimately comes about will affect communities across the nation and that clearly includes Phoenix.

Alden Woods of The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com wrote about one particular neighborhood — Edison-Eastlake — that has seen its public housing projects deeply impacted in recent years. We spoke with Woods.

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Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.