Sen. Enzi Calls for Review, Bipartisan Reform of Federal Housing

Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), right, and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), speak to each other during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 13, 2018. Astrid Riecken/Getty Images

U.S. taxpayers fund more than 160 overlapping federal housing programs at an annual cost of more than $50 billion, but America still has too few homes for low-income families, according to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.).

“With programs scattered across multiple federal agencies, the system leads to overlap and waste and actually limits resources that should be going to those in need,” Enzi told a budget panel hearing about the housing problem on Sept. 16.