A proposed new rule would make it impossible for multi-status families to get federal housing assistance.
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Why this is bad
Currently, citizens and immigrants with status can apply for federal housing assistance, without sharing the citizenship status of everyone in their home. Mixed status families – where some members of a family may be citizens or legal residents but others are not – can stay together. The federal government only pays for the people who have legal status.
This proposal would prohibit families with mixed immigration status from receiving housing assistance or living in either public or Section 8 housing.
If adopted, many families would have to choose between going homeless or breaking up. 80,000 people could be evicted from their homes. That includes 37,000 children, nearly all of whom are themselves U.S. citizens.
The Trump administration is trying to make simply existing in this country next to impossible for immigrants.