The newly elected NAHT Board has joined the Leaders and Organizers for Tenant Empowerment (LOFTE) to strongly oppose HUD’s proposal to allow owners to impose two year time limits and work requirements on HUD subsidized low income tenants.  The organizations filed comments to oppose the proposed Rule by HUD’s May 1, 2026 deadline. 

Commenting on HUD’s proposed Rule, newly-elected NAHT President Yolanda Stokes from Newark, New Jersey, and LOFTE Co-Chair Michael Kane wrote, “The rule will needlessly cause massive hardship, disruption and homelessness for millions of low income families.”

          Stokes and Kane wrote that HUD’s real goal is to put vulnerable people on the streets “to save funds to pay for further cut taxes for the rich and increased funding for the Pentagon.”                        

           “We urge HUD to withdraw this proposal now,’ they wrote.  “HUD should dedicate its efforts to policies and funding that strengthen, not undermine, the availability of housing assistance to all who need it.” 

          Click here to read the joint NAHT and LOFTE comments to HUD.  HUD is now reviewing thousands of comments opposing the proposed rule and will respond in the months ahead.