In order to pay for a 50-percent increase to the nation’s defense budget, the Trump administration this week proposed to cut funds from a number of other government areas — including $6.2 billion, or 13 percent, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.”Under the proposal, direct rental assistance payments — including Section 8 Housing and housing vouchers for homeless veterans — would be cut by at least $300 million,” reported The Washington Post last week when preliminary numbers were first revealed.According to an analysis released today by Trulia, there are certain groups that will be disproportionately affected by the cuts to rental assistance:Millennials Urban renters Black rentersYoung inner-city black renters stand to lose out significantly if the budget is passed as proposed. The numbers: Who’s affected Trulia decided to dig into the “wealth of data from the U.S. Census Current Population Survey (CPS) on where and who benefits from…
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