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HUD Secretary Cuomo Calls for Vouchers, New Construction Budget

ARLINGTON, VA-Cuomo argues that reforms have earned HUD a bigger appropriation and the right to push policy again.

By Mike Cleary | Updated on October 03, 2000

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has reformed itself enough to deserve increases in funding for housing vouchers and the first new money in two decades for new rental housing construction, says Secretary Andrew Cuomo. He made his remarks Monday night here at the HUD-sponsored conference, Housing Policy for the New Millennium, as Congress this month considers the HUD appropriations bill.

The agency has proven it can put past scandals and inefficiencies behind it, he told about 100 government, academic and industry officials in the Hilton Crystal City. “The reforms have worked,” Cuomo said. “We can talk policy again.”

HUD has requested its third straight increase in budget for vouchers–$683 million–which includes the first new money exclusively for rental construction in 24 years, he said. HUD also has hopes for a proposal for $1 billion in housing construction, although neither the House nor the Senate currently include any money for such new construction in their appropriations bills.

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