STATEMENT: HUD’s Mixed Status Final Rule Chooses Cruelty Over Common Sense
On Trump's "Verification of Eligible Status" final rule.
With today’s “mixed status” housing final rule, HUD and the Trump administration have chosen cruelty over common sense. Trump’s HUD is choosing to waste time and money separating families rather than focusing on the economic crisis facing the people of this country.
HUD’s new rule forces families with immigrant household members to choose between staying together and losing their homes. If not stopped, this rule will separate families, increase homelessness, and destabilize tens of thousands of American children.
This rule will do nothing to solve the housing crisis. Mixed status families pay higher, market-rate rents to live with their eligible family members, and that money helps sustain the whole system. Losing this revenue would deepen funding deficits in our already starved public housing program and mean fewer affordable homes across the country.
Our government should be helping people who are already struggling, not wasting time and money on racist tricks that will lead to more homelessness.
HUD must rescind this cruel, costly, and counterproductive rule immediately and deliver real solutions to the housing crisis.
Mixed-status families should know: you do not have to move out or ask a family member to leave right now. The rule is not yet in effect, and the fight to stop it continues.
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Alliance for Housing Justice is a coalition of organizations including Popular Democracy, Center for Law and Social Policy, Housing Justice for All NY, Housing Now! CA, Liberation in a Generation, PolicyLink, People's Action, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Housing Law Project, PowerSwitch Action, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Public Advocates & Right to the City Alliance
