DOGE Cuts Impact Every Corner of Indiana, Including Housing Nonprofits

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.”