2020 budget would harm LGBT community

These people make me sick. My own parents attend church and are extremely UN-christian. They are so fucking hypocritical it's unreal. They just go to make themselves feel good.

President Donald Trump’s proposed 2020 budget would seriously harm the LGBTQ community, many of whom rely on the public programs the administration is intent on shrinking. Even the initiative to end HIV is deeply flawed, experts on LGBTQ policy say.

The 2020 budget includes a $8.6 billion cut for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and proposes eliminating the Community Development Block Grant program and capital improvement funds for public housing repairs.

The LGBTQ community disproportionately experience homelessness and rely on public housing assistance.

A 2017 Center for American Progress (CAP) survey found that LGBTQ people and their families relied on public housing assistance at 2.5 times the rate of people who weren’t in the LGBTQ community. Sharita Gruberg, director of policy for the LGBT Research and Communications Project at CAP, said trans people are five times more likely to report receiving some kind of housing assistance. (ThinkProgress is an editorially independent news site housed at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.)

A 2012 Williams Institute report found that 30 percent of clients utilizing housing programs identified as LGBTQ.

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