STATEMENT: HUD’s Proposed Mixed-Status Rule is Cruel, Costly & Counterproductive.

HUD’s Proposed “Verification of Eligible Status” Rule for Mixed-Status Families

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

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.

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 documented family members in federal housing. The Trump administration is calling this a ‘loophole’—that is a lie. Families get less help—and pay more—when someone in the home is ineligible for assistance.

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 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 The Keep Families Together website.

Keep Families Together & submit a comment on HUD's mixed-status proposal:

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Tell HUD: Keep Families Together and Housed!

HUD’s new proposal is cruel, costly, and counterproductive. It would rip families apart and increase eviction & homelessness during a housing crisis. Join me in telling HUD Secretary Scott Turner to withdraw it.

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Alliance for Housing Justice is a coalition of organizations including The Center for Law and Social Policy, Popular Democracy, 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 

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