The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a proposed rule to evict all undocumented immigrants from public housing to the federal register Friday, setting in motion the first step towards finalizing a plan that could impact tens of thousands of undocumented parents and their U.S. citizen children.
Under this proposed rule, HUD would be prohibited from “making financial assistance available to persons other than United States citizens.” The current rule allows for mixed-status families — where members have different citizenship and immigration statuses — to receive housing assistance as long as one person is eligible. In return, the family’s subsidy is prorated to account for the eligible residents.
HUD and immigration advocacy groups have estimated that there are 25,000 families of mixed-immigration status that receive housing assistance, the majority of whom live in New York, California, and Texas.
Under this new rule, however, every single member of a household must be of “eligible immigration status.” An undocumented parent will no longer be able to a sign a subsidized housing lease even if their child is a U.S. citizen or legal resident. According to HUD’s own analysis, first reported by the Washington Post, more than 55,000 children could be displaced by the plan — all of whom are U.S. citizens or legal residents.
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