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STATEMENT: HUD’s New Mixed Status Proposal is Cruel, Costly & Counterproductive.

  • Writer: Alliance for Housing Justice
    Alliance for Housing Justice
  • 7 hours ago
  • 2 min read

The "Verification of Eligible Status" (Mixed Status) Proposed Rule

Today, the Trump administration escalated its attacks on everyday people struggling to keep a roof over their heads.


AHJ STATEMENT: HUD’s New Mixed Status Proposal is Cruel, Costly & Counterproductive.

Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is trying to enact a rule that blames immigrants for the administration’s own failure to address the housing crisis.


We will not stand for it. Communities across the country are fighting back to keep these changes from going into effect and to keep families together.


HUD’s proposal, “Verification of Eligible Status,” targets immigrant families by undoing longstanding guidelines that allow undocumented people – who get zero federal assistance – to live with their documented family members in federal housing.


If HUD is allowed to push this through, thousands of “mixed-status” families will face an impossible choice: force family members out or stay together and face eviction and homelessness. 


On top of being vindictive, this proposal is fiscally irresponsible: unsubsidized family members are charged higher, market rate rents, effectively subsidizing the entire federal housing system. With no additional federal funding proposed to make up for this shortfall, this rule would lead to fewer subsidized units and fewer vouchers—during the worst affordability crisis in generations.


This proposed rule is cruel, costly, and counterproductive. Alliance for Housing Justice and our partners will fight to Keep Families Together.



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For more information on this proposed rulemaking, visit www.keep-families-together.org. 




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