Trump Takes Second Swing at Cutting Housing Assistance for Immigrants
A pending HUD rule change targeting aid for families with undocumented members revisits an idea that housing advocates fought off in Trump’s first term.
Henry Rutgers Houses, a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), stand in in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, April 26, 2018 in New York City.
Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images North AmericaAs part of the wide-ranging deportation agenda of President Donald Trump, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development is planning to make changes to rules governing families with at least one undocumented member in the household, evicting them from public housing and rescinding their access to rental vouchers and other housing assistance. The rule could affect more than 100,000 people, half of them children.m
A pending rule change is currently going through review at the Office of Information or Regulatory Affairs, or OIRA, that would affect the so-called mixed-status rule, a HUD guideline that prorates federal housing assistance based on the immigration status of family members. About 5 million households in the US contain a mix of undocumented residents and US citizens or legal residents, according to the Center for Migration Studies.