Funding for the immediate needs and safety for unhoused residents during the pandemic.
Provide funding for the immediate needs and safety of unhoused residents during the pandemic.
Occurrences
Evidence
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The FY27 appropriations page lists FY2026 requested projects, including a Housing Authority of New Orleans request for the "Christopher Park Affordable Housing Redevelopment" project, described as creating 102 affordable housing units.
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Public Law 117-2 was enacted March 11, 2021. Sections 3202 and 3205 appropriated $5 billion for emergency housing vouchers and $5 billion for homelessness assistance and supportive services for homeless, at-risk, recently homeless, or otherwise housing-unstable people.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 49 on February 27, 2021 for H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act; the vote passed 219-212. Carter is not listed among the voters, while Carter (GA) and Carter (TX) appear as Republican no votes.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 385 on November 19, 2021 for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act; the bill passed the House 220-213, and Carter (LA), Democrat of Louisiana, voted Yea.
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CBO identified H.R. 5376 as the Build Back Better Act and estimated that enacting the legislation would increase the deficit by $367 billion over 2022-2031, excluding additional tax-enforcement revenue.
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Carter's FY2026 project list includes a $5 million Housing Authority of New Orleans request for Christopher Park Affordable Housing Redevelopment to create 102 affordable housing units. The same page states that submitting a request does not guarantee appropriation.
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FY2023 project requested: Anna's Place NOLA, amount requested $2,000,000. Purpose included a food pantry, community support hub, homeless outreach, refillable water stations, increased yearly meals to 7,000, and free telehealth care near the largest homeless encampment in the city.
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Carter's office said his successfully funded FY2023 Community Funding Projects totaled $35,007,000, including $750,000 for the Dodwell House Community Resource Center in New Orleans, described as a community center with an after-school program, summer camp, food pantry, community support hub, and homeless outreach center.
Assessments
Carter cannot be credited for the American Rescue Plan homelessness and emergency housing funding because it passed before he took office. He did support later federal spending efforts, including the House-passed Build Back Better Act, but that did not become law in that form. The strongest fulfillment evidence is his FY2023 community project funding work, including a successfully funded New Orleans community resource project with a food pantry, support hub, and homeless outreach center. That materially advanced funding for immediate supports for unhoused residents, but it was narrower and less explicitly pandemic-specific than the full campaign promise, so partial credit is appropriate.
The evidence shows Carter continuing to request federal housing funding in a later appropriations cycle, but it does not demonstrate funding for the specific promise of immediate needs and safety for unhoused residents during the pandemic. The cited project is a separate affordable-housing redevelopment request, so it is not enough to count the campaign promise as delivered or even partially completed.
The promised policy goal was partly achieved at the federal level, but the strongest pandemic-era homelessness funding evidence predates Carter’s service in Congress. Troy Carter won the special election on April 24, 2021 and was sworn in on May 11, 2021, while the American Rescue Plan became law on March 11, 2021 and included major housing and homelessness funding aimed at immediate pandemic needs. That means the core outcome appears to have been delivered mostly by other federal officials before Carter took office, so full credit is not warranted in a federal office context. Later official materials show Carter continued to seek housing-related appropriations, but the cited FY2026/FY27 project materials concern longer-term affordable housing redevelopment, not clear pandemic-era emergency funding for unhoused residents’ immediate needs and safety.