Brooklyn Borough Hall rally protests Trump’s HUD budget cuts
‘Families will have no place to live’
Melissa Del Valle Ortiz, 47, lives with her two adult children in a 40-building, Section 8 development on Sixth Avenue in Sunset Park, which houses roughly 400 families. Her son has autism and her daughter, who she calls a “creative spirit,” is struggling to find a job.
If President Donald Trump’s proposal to slash the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) goes through, she says, she might have to move in with her mom.
“I’m laughing just to keep from crying,” she told the Brooklyn Eagle on Monday.