About 55,000 Children Could Be Made Homeless Under New HUD Rule
early 110,000 people in public housing could face eviction under a newly proposed Trump administration rule ― and about half of them are children who are legally allowed to live there, the Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged Friday.
HUD’s new rule is meant to target families with mixed-citizenship status who are receiving housing assistance. It comes just a few weeks after Housing Secretary Ben Carson promised to “make certain our scarce public resources help those who are legally entitled to it.”
Under the current rules, undocumented immigrants cannot receive housing assistance on their own, but they can live in households where at least one member is eligible for assistance ― a category that includes U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylum seekers.
The ineligible members do not need to declare their immigration status. Rather, they simply declare themselves “ineligible,” and the household rent is prorated around the immigration status of everyone living there. But the Trump administration considers these ineligibility declarations a loophole.
HUD’s proposed rule, published Friday in the Federal Register and first reported by The Washington Post, would step up efforts to vet the immigration status of every person living in subsidized housing under the age of 62.
In an analysis of its proposed rule change, HUD said that “mixed-family” households typically contain three members who are eligible for the housing assistance and one who is not.
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