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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is ordering local housing authorities to ramp up their verification of citizenship status for residents of public housing, reports Chris Cameron for The New York Times.
HUD says an internal audit found “nearly 200,000 tenants who had not been explicitly verified as eligible for housing assistance, as well as ‘nearly 6,000 ineligible non-American tenants.’” Cameron notes that it is unclear whether these residents were ineligible for reasons other than citizenship, such as income limits.
According to Cameron, the agency did not specify what information it is requiring from agencies and did not provide the results of the audit to reporters. “In a letter sent to public housing authorities and property owners last month, HUD reminded them to perform routine checks to verify tenants’ immigration status and income, saying that they “may be subject to sanctions” if they did not perform the checks.”
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