The DOGE Impact Tracker

In total, grants and leases in Indiana targeted by DOGE total more than $1 billion, according to the Center for American Progress. And those cuts includes the cancellation of a grant to replace lead pipes, hundreds of job cuts at AmeriCorps to support schools, and lost funding for fair housing organizations, reports The Indianapolis Star: 

Amy Nelson, the executive director of the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, has worked in housing organizations since 1997, but said the funding cuts threatening the civil rights-focused nonprofit are unlike anything Nelson has experienced in her career.  

The FHCCI was among organizations that lost funding due to Trump’s establishment of DOGE, which unleashed a wave of funding cuts, layoffs and grant and lease terminations in order to reduce federal government spending. …  

She said the funding gaps threaten FHCCI’s reports that study housing issues like homeowner insurance, educational programs to teach anti-discrimination laws and the size of its staff that can answer phone calls from Hoosiers who need help.

“The biggest thing is that the housing discrimination is going to increase dramatically,” Nelson said, “if you do not have organizations like mine out there, who are able to help people who experience bias or harms, or able to let the market know that somebody is watching.”  

The dismissal of members of AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps is having a major impact in Wisconsin, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

One crew of young volunteers was going to build a home in northwestern Wisconsin this summer.

A second group was set to be camp counselors for a “sibling camp” in Plymouth that brings together children separated by the foster care system.

And a third crew was heading to Wausau to build and restore houses and clear trails.

But none of them are coming anymore, Wisconsin nonprofits learned Wednesday.

The Trump administration’s decision to stall at least $60 million in funding for affordable housing developments across the country is hitting small community nonprofits that  use the money as seed funding for projects. 

According to The Associated Press:

Congress chose three nonprofits to distribute the grants, but HUD said in letters that it was cancelling contracts with two of the organizations, which together were to distribute the $60 million. That’s pushed millions in funding already promised to small nonprofits, or yet to be awarded, into the twilight zone.

“Many of those organizations have already committed funds to pay workers, such as HVAC [heating, ventilation and air condition] technicians, local contractors, homeownership counselors,” said Shaun Donovan, CEO of Enterprise Community Partners and former HUD secretary under President Barack Obama. Enterprise is one of the two groups whose contracts were cancelled…

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation is the other group whose contract was cancelled. “Without access to this seed capital, housing projects for hardworking families will stall, worsening shortages and pushing distressed neighbors into overcrowded conditions or homelessness,” it said in a statement.