Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 15 - Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Assign all delegated powers to politically appointed leadership positions
• Change current career leadership positions into political and non-career appointment positions
• Use Senior Executive Service (SES) transfers to install aligned leadership
• Make the HUD Secretary a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
• Create a HUD task force to identify and reverse Biden Administration actions advancing progressive ideology
• Review all subregulatory guidance instituted outside of the Administrative Procedure Act
• End the Biden Administration's Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) policies
• Repeal climate change initiatives and spending
• Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation
• Eliminate the new Housing Supply Fund
• Prohibit noncitizens and mixed-status families from living in federally assisted housing
• Implement stricter work and work-readiness requirements
• Impose maximum term limits for residents in public housing and rental assistance programs
• Reduce the implicit anti-marriage bias in housing assistance programs
• End Housing First policies for addressing homelessness
• Suspend external research and evaluation grants in the Office of Policy Development and Research
• Increase mortgage insurance premiums for longer-term mortgages
• Encourage shorter-duration mortgages
• Move the Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM) program to its own special risk insurance fund
• Revise loan limit determinations
• Provide statutory flexibility for shorter-term mortgage products
• Restrict FHA eligibility to first-time homebuyers
• Move the HUD Real Estate Assessment Center from PIH to the Office of Housing
• Maintain budget authority for modernization initiatives in IT and program offices
• Encourage choice and competition in rental markets
• Add flexibility to rent payment terms
• Prioritize federal rental assistance subsidies that emphasize choice and mobility
• Provide authority for maximal flexibility in PHA land sales
• Consider the future of the public housing model
• Oppose efforts to weaken single-family zoning
• Propose tax credits for renovation or repair of housing stock in rural areas
• Devolve many HUD functions to states and localities
• Consider consolidating some programs and eliminating others
• Narrow the scope of many programs closer to their original purposes
• Potentially transfer some HUD functions to other federal agencies (e.g., loan guarantee programs to SBA, Indian housing programs to Department of Interior)