DOGE Funding Cuts Prove Fleeting for Groups That Ditch DEI Words
After losing $60 million in federal funding, a pair of national housing groups made strategic edits to their websites — and got it back.
Construction at an affordable housing development in Pennsylvania in 2024.
Photographer: Rachel Wisniewski/BloombergSoon after President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting fervor reached its peak, eliminating billions of dollars in grants and contracts, two national, government-funded nonprofits did what seemed unthinkable: They got their money back.
The groups, Enterprise Community Partners and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, which focus on affordable housing, convinced the Department of Housing and Urban Development to restore more than $60 million in contracts that had been canceled just a few weeks earlier by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.