Native Organizers Alliance - Donald Trump is attacking our legal right to Native housing. There’s a bipartisan solution:

 

Patricia, Donald Trump’s proposed 2027 budget makes massive cuts to federal housing programs -- it has a big impact on Indian Country. Housing is a treaty right as well as a basic human right. As the Executive Director of the National American Indian Housing Council said in response, “The President’s FY27 budget request signals concerning reductions that would constrain vital tribal housing programs, even as housing needs across Indian Country continue to grow.” In response, a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives have introduced the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Modernization Act, which would reauthorize and modernize federal housing programs serving Native communities. The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget is currently withholding funds allocated by Congress, calling Tribal housing “work programs.” Ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee Rep. Rosa DeLauro said the president’s budget “abandon[s] our trust and treaty obligations to Native Americans.” With broad bipartisan support, we have a critical opportunity to protect housing grants from cuts while defending our treaty rights and strengthening our inherent and legal sovereign rights. Send a message to your Senators and Representative today, urging quick passage of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Modernization Act. SIGN AND SEND Even though the federal government is legally obligated to uphold tribal treaty rights, such as providing funding for housing, Native people on Turtle Island are more likely to experience houselessness than any other group.[1] And Trump’s budget proposal would make things much worse. This new bill would modernize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, which has not been updated since 2008, and would reauthorize Tribal housing programs that have been funded by Congress, but which the Trump administration has been withholding funding from. Send an urgent message to Congress to protect Native housing from cuts and to enact critical updates that Tribes need to keep up with housing demands. Together, we’re protecting democracy by pushing Congress to implement our constitutional right to sovereignty. Hawwih (thank you) for taking action today, Judith LeBlanc (Caddo) Executive Director BUILD NATIVE POLITICAL POWER [1] National Alliance to End Homelessness’s “State of Homelessness: 2025 Edition”

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