Submitted by Health-Law-Anno... on 07/01/2019 - 10:01am.
Hi All --Happy week of July 4!
I am forwarding info from the Natl Housing Law Project about proposed HUD rule that would change long standing HUD rules pro-rating rent subsidies for mixed status (Citizen/Eligible immigrant + ineligible immigrant) families. The proposed rule will lead to mixed status families losing access to federal subsidized & public housing even at the higher rents they are charged now. It will also require documentation by all residents/applicants of either eligible immigration status or US citizenship --these added documentation requirements will be a barrier for a significant portion of low income people including US citizens. We saw this in Medicaid after 2005 when paper documentation for US citizens was required & before the SSA data match was in place --it was US citizens who lost benefits not the phantom undocumented immigrants claiming citizenship. The CBPP blog post linked below has more information on the US citizenship verification proposal. HUD itself acknowledges this change will be costly --both in terms of administrative costs & in terms of the foregone higher rent payments made by mixed status families. And of course we all know how the housing instability --which this proposal promotes--l adversely affects health.
Comments are due by July 9, 2019. See below for links to Template comment letter & instructions for how to file comments.
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From: Karlo Ng <kng@nhlp.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:23 PM
Subject: #KeepFamiliesTogether
From: Karlo Ng <kng@nhlp.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:23 PM
Subject: #KeepFamiliesTogether
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