HUD Plans to Bar Mixed-status Immigrant Households From Subsidized Housing

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to require every household receiving housing assistance to provide proof of citizenship or legal status for each household member, reports Ashleigh Fields in The Hill. The change would prevent mixed-status households, who currently receive pro-rated assistance, from being eligible for federal subsidized housing.

In a statement on behalf of the National Housing Law Project, executive director Shamus Roller wrote, ‘The result would be over 100,000 people evicted, including more than 37,000 children, many of them citizens. HUD also seeks to enlist housing authorities and owners into immigration enforcement and away from its core mission–providing affordable housing in the midst of a national housing crisis.”

According to Fields, “PHAs and members of the public are allowed to weigh in on the proposed rule until 60 days after its date of publication in the Federal Register.”