The Department of Housing and Urban Development sent letters to hundreds of landlords in a “last-minute” effort to prevent evictions due to President Donald Trump’s partial government shutdown, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
According to the Post, the Jan. 4 memo to 1,500 landlords urged them to draw on reserve cash to prevent evictions, now that departmental spending has dried up.
“Many agency officials,” the Post reported, “didn’t realize” that a HUD program covering thousands of tenants expired on Jan. 1.
The HUD memo obtained by the Post carries the subject “Impact of Government Shutdown on Multifamily FHA Mortgage Insurance Applications and Production Activities” and reads in part:
“Owners of properties with FHA insured mortgages or 202/811 Capital Advances may submit requests for releases from their reserve for replacement accounts to cover funding shortfalls caused by non-payment of monthly rental subsidy.”
Sections 202 and 811 cover capital advances and rent subsidies to expand housing opportunities for the elderly and individuals with disabilities, respectively.
Wonder how many of those landlords are going to take advantage of this loophole to get out of what is for them onerous leases…
But it’s all poor and brown folk, likely Democrats, so nobody will care.
Ooooh, Beavis and Butthead Trump are already eyeing those emptying buildings for development.
The President has been threatening shutting down the government for … what… six months or so? And the damn top folks in the agencies don’t start learning (omg from experienced fed. workers in their agencies - oohhh can’t do that … "deep state…) to figure out what the impacts might be, and can’t look for the most serious/vulnerable gaps.
This is what having no fucking idea what policy means, and no concern for govt accept trying to grift off of it look like. Despicable.
The tRump Criminal Family Enterprise is based on one very simple principle:
That, and of course the rule of law doesn’t apply to them like it does everyone else.
Time to tune out…Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.
Damn Trump. Damn Trump’s administration. Damn Congressional Republicans. And damn – actually double-god-damn – every damned voter who voted for any damn Republican.