A few billions, but not enough real money...

- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is posting more analyses of the FY2007 budget proposal every day. New items today include a look at even deeper cuts to domestic programs that the White House proposes to make over the next five years. On their mailing list they've circulated an "Initial Assessment" of "Impacts on Housing Voucher Program and Hurricane Recovery." Among their conclusions: although the proposal calls for an increase in Sec. 8 voucher funding, it

would not, however, provide the stability that local voucher programs badly need after the repeated funding changes of the past three years. At the funding level requested, we estimate that the pro rata cut applied to each agency's eligibility for funding under the proposed formula would be 25 percent greater in 2007 than the 5.25 percent cut HUD has indicated it is likely to impose in 2006.

Oh.

- The HAC News latest edition includes one of HAC's nicely presented housing budget comparison charts.

- The National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness is not happy with the proposed HUD budget increases for programs specifically designed to reduce "chronic homelessness," on the grounds that proposed cuts to other housing programs would make more people homeless than before.

- Texas has wangled a little more of that $11.5 billion in CDBG relief money: $88 million instead of $74 million.