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Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing

Housing and Urban Development has proposed a new rule that could prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving federal housing aid. The result could be thousands of families evicted.
Ben Carson is the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. HUD has proposed a new rule that would make families of mixed immigration status ineligible for subsidized housing. An impact analysis finds that some 55,000 children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents could lose housing.

Tens of thousands of poor children — all of them American citizens or legal residents — could lose their housing under a new rule proposed today by the Trump Administration.

The rule is intended to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving federal housing aid, which the administration argues should only go to help legal residents or citizens.

But the proposal targets 25,000 families that now receive such aid because they are of "mixed" status, which means that at

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