Senate Appropriations Committee

Senate Appropriations Committee recommends current services funding for HOPWA for FY2005 of $294.8 million.

On September 21 the Senate Appropriations Committee approved funding for the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program at the level requested in the President’s budget of $294.8 million (The House Committee recommended slashing the program to $282 million in action in July). The Committee indicates that 73,700 individuals can be assisted with this funding. In other action the Committee funded the Section 8 housing choice voucher program at $20.7 billion, an increase of more than $2.2 billion over the President’s request, a funding level that accommodates full funding of all existing vouchers. The Committee expressed concern over both HUD’s failure to implement the voucher provisions of the FY2004 appropriations act as well as the increasing cost of the section 8 program and its impact on funding of other housing programs. Homeless assistance grants were funded at the FY2004 level of $1.26 billion. The 811 program of housing for persons with disabilities grew to $250 million, an increase of $950,000 over FY2004 funding. (S. 2825, S. Rept. 108-353, Sept. 21, 2004). Visit the link below for the full text.

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app05.html and scroll down to VA-HUD.