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The annual Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding report revealed that the Biden administration misused a massive $5.2 billion in taxpayer funds.
The report noted that the HUD Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) reviewed all Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) and Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) from 2024 and found a large number of questionable payments, process gaps, and materials.
This included nearly 10,000 payments to individuals without proper social security number identification, nearly 30,000 payments to deceased individuals, and a whopping 165,393 payments to individuals with excessively high rent locations. This amounts to over 200,000 HUD payments to individuals who may not have actually qualified for the assistance received.
HUD funding was designed to aid low-income citizens and prevent homelessness. Despite this, the improper payments amounted to 11 percent of HUD’s taxpayer funding, which could have been used for other purposes.
30,000 dead people receiving housing isn’t an accident — it was systematic fraud by Biden and the left.
— Scott Turner (@SecretaryTurner) December 30, 2025
HUD will hold those who defrauded the American taxpayers accountable.https://t.co/GJW5IZEXER
HUD Secretary Scott Turner called it “A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars,” in a statement for the New York Post. He added that the Biden administration incentivised this abuse through its failure to “implement strong financial controls.”
“HUD will continue investigating the shocking results and will take appropriate action to hold bad actors accountable,” he added. “Additionally, the Department is advancing efforts made under President Trump’s first administration to strengthen program integrity and ensure taxpayer-funded assistance serves the vulnerable communities it was intended for.”
The New York Post confirmed that payments were largely made to New York, California and Washington, D.C., but that payments were made to all states.