WASHINGTON - The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal US residents or citizens.
Current rules bar undocumented immigrants from receiving federal housing subsidies but allow families of mixed-immigration status as long as one person - a child born in the United States or a citizen spouse - is eligible. The subsidies are prorated to cover only eligible residents. Among these mixed-status households, 70 per cent, or 76,000 people, are legally eligible for benefits - of whom 55,000 are children, HUD says. The vast majority live in California, Texas and New York.
Restricting those subsidies to families in which all members are legal US residents would cost an additional US$193 million to US$227 million a year because entire families would receive higher subsidies, the analysis said.
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