Choice Neighborhood programs to expand if Joe Biden new budget deal passes. As part of the Biden Administration’s new budget offer offering the largest one-time expenditures in affordable housing in U.S. history, one of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s trademark programmes might see one of its largest expansions since its inception a decade ago.
HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods programme is distinct from more typical housing initiatives that focus primarily on the construction and repair of affordable housing units or the expansion of voucher programmes.
After months of controversy, President Joe Biden included funding for the Choice Neighborhoods programme in his latest offer to Congress on his Build Back Better plan to enhance U.S. safety net programmes on Thursday.
Over the previous decade, the programme has granted roughly $1.2 billion to 40 cities around the country.
“Congress and the Joe Biden administration are clearly taking measures to make additional investments like this,” he continued. During the occasion in Cleveland, Jeffery K. Patterson, CEO of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, hailed the news. One of the program’s main advantages, according to Patterson, is its adaptability.
