NHLP On New HUD Rule: Trump Separates and Evicts Immigrant Families In Order to Destroy Federal Housing Programs

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) today released the following statement by Chief Executive Officer Shamus Roller in response to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) new regulation that would evict tens of thousands of families with mixed immigration status from HUD housing and put many other federally-assisted tenants at risk of homelessness:

“No matter where we come from or what language we speak, our country has the resources to ensure that all of us have a safe place to call home. But President Trump is exploiting the economic crises under his watch to sow division and scapegoat immigrants. His administration deflects blame for the housing crisis onto immigrants so they can continue dismantling HUD’s lifesaving housing programs. HUD also wants to force housing authorities and owners to comply with the administration’s deportation agenda instead of pursuing their core mission–keeping people in their homes in the midst of a national housing crisis. We are ready to fight alongside our immigrant neighbors to keep families whole and housed.”

In April, NHLP submitted a comment to HUD urging it to withdraw an earlier version of this rule. HUD’s own regulatory impact analysis estimates that as a result of the proposal, the number of citizens and eligible immigrants who would receive HUD assistance would decrease, contrary to HUD’s stated goal of the proposal.

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