Jose G. Landa
Staff writer

The Eagle Pass Housing Authority discussed the possibility of eliminating job positions and tackled a harassment complaint involving an employee at their meeting held on Thursday February, 23, 2018.

Jose G. Landa
Staff writer

The Eagle Pass Housing Authority Board of Commissioners voted in favor of extending Executive Director Criselda Salazar’s contract for a year after evaluating her work/performance at a meeting held on Thursday December, 21,2017.

Jose G. Landa
Staff writer

Eagle Pass Housing Authority is bracing for possible funding cuts from the Federal Government in the near future.
The Eagle Pass Housing Authority Board of Commissioners held a meeting on Thursday December 21, 2017 in which issues regarding funding cuts being proposed by the federal government were discussed.
Board President Ana Gonzalez brought up some of the issues during the agencies monthly departmental reports. “We’re in a bind. And we still don’t know what the President is going to come up with next month. We already know they’re is going to be cuts. How much? What percentage we don’t know. So this is something that we really need to take a hard look at.
Gonzalez explained that the organization was going to have to be very frugal with funds to save up and assure that whatever cuts are coming don’t affect the agency in a hard way.
“There are going to be cuts so you are all going to have to work with what they give you.” added Gonzalez.
Gonzalez detailed that if the cuts are significant that the Housing Authority could possibly even have to consider eradicating employment positions.
 Gonzalez, the Board of Commissioners and administration went through certain details as to what would be required from the local housing authority to continue its operations if any significant cuts or stoppage of funding were to occur under the Trump Administration.
On May 23, 2017, the White House released its Fiscal Year 1208 budget. The budget includes steep cuts in funding for affordable housing programs, totaling $6.8 billion in cuts to Housing Urban Development (HUD) programs from actual Fiscal Year 2017 funding levels.
   Up to this point the cuts are still in the works and could possibly even grow affecting millions of individuals including in Eagle Pass.

Posible  recorte de fondos para EPHA 

La Autoridad de Viviendas de Eagle Pass se prepara para posibles recortes de fondos del Gobierno Federal.
Mesa directiva de la Autoridad de Viviendas de Eagle Pass tuvieron una reunión el jueves 21 de diciembre de 2017 en la que se discutieron cuestiones relacionadas con los recortes de fondos propuestos por el gobierno federal.
La presidenta de la mesa , Ana González, mencionó algunos de los problemas durante los informes departamentales mensuales de las agencias. "Estamos en un aprieto. Y todavía no sabemos lo que el Presidente presentará el próximo mes. Ya sabemos que van a ser recortes. ¿Cuánto cuesta? Qué porcentaje no sabemos Entonces, esto es algo que realmente debemos analizar detenidamente.”
González explicó que la organización iba a tener que   ahorrar con fondos y asegurar que los recortes que vengan no afecten a la agencia de una manera dura.
"Habrá recortes, así que todos tendrán que trabajar con lo que les den", agregó González.

González detalló que si los recortes son significativos, posiblemente la Agencia podría tener que considerar la posibilidad de erradicar los puestos de trabajo. "Si tenemos que hacerlo, tenemos que hacer eso".
González, los Comisionados y Administración revisaron ciertos detalles sobre qué se requeriría de la Autoridad de Vivienda local para continuar sus operaciones si ocurriera cualquier recorte significativo o suspensión de fondos bajo la Administración Trump.
 El 23 de mayo de 2017, la Casa Blanca publicó su presupuesto para el año fiscal 1208. El presupuesto incluye fuertes recortes en los fondos para programas de vivienda , un total de $ 6.8 mil millones en recortes a los programas de Vivienda Urbana de Desarrollo (HUD) de los niveles de financiación reales del año fiscal 2017.
Hasta este punto, los recortes aún están en proceso y posiblemente incluso puedan afectar a millones de personas, incluido Eagle Pass.