Saturday, February 21, 2026

HUD Proposes Rule that Would Force Noncitizens from Public Housing

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed a rule that would limit public housing mostly to US citizens, which could lead to tens of thousands of people being evicted.

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$413,000 per bed. Insanity. While they cut health care, food assistance, etc.

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-- The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) Feb 18, 2026 at 11:52 PM

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"The HUD rule, published in the linked Federal Register, calls for limiting funding for those in public housing and other HUD-related housing to citizens and eligible noncitizens. The rule would require every resident in HUD-funded housing to show proof of citizenship or eligible status, including those 62 years and older who previously only had to show proof of age.

The measure would effectively bar mixed status families, where some household members are eligible for help, from housing and is part of the nefarious Trumpf junta's insidious immigration crackdown. A similar rule was proposed but never finalized during the first Trumpf Reign of Terror and is mentioned as a policy priority in the conservative blueprint Project 2025.

"Under President Dummkopf Trumpf's so-called leadership, the days of illegal aliens, ineligibles, and fraudsters gaming the system and riding the coattails of American taxpayers are over," HUD Secretary Scott Turner bleated. "HUD's proposed rule will guarantee that all residents in HUD-funded housing are eligible tenants. We have zero tolerance for pushing aside hardworking US citizens while enabling others to exploit decades-old loopholes."


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"Up to 20,000 families or as many as 80,000 people could lose assistance due to changes in eligibility that would overturn a rule that has been in place for decades.

The impact of the rule could affect many more people who struggle to provide proper documentation. About 3.8 million adults with citizenship lack any form of documentation proving their citizenship, and another 17.5 million cannot easily get the documents."

Our president: Nightmare Slumlord

Dummkopf Trumpf: Draft-dodging silver-spooned racist sexual predator and golf cheating billionaire slumlord who never worked a day in his life.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-20 03:53 AM

They'll limit it to whites only next.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2026-02-20 08:35 AM

Honestly, I don't see what the issue is.

Citizens and legal migrants can obtain assistance.

I'm honestly surprised there aren't statutory restrictions on undocumented migrants obtaining housing assistance as there are restrictions on them obtaining just about every other assistance.

Given the crux seems to be ANY resident, is it currently required that one list every single resident of a residence to obtain housing assistance? Or does the application only require one resident to obtain funding?

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-20 10:28 AM

Why even bother with this non issue.

Trying to stir up more culture war ammunition?

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-02-20 10:56 AM

"require every resident in HUD-funded housing to show proof of citizenship or eligible status"

Republicans love nothing more than demanding poor people show their papers.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-20 10:56 AM

The issue is the Trumpish Great Replacement Theory... darker skin people are going to replace us white folk.

I mean, it's not like we ever replaced a browner race when we got here... oh, wait...

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-20 11:05 AM

Can't work, can't have SNAP, not eligible for 'x'.

How do they survive if given a roof over their head? Anything they do for a living is illegal.

#7 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-02-20 02:19 PM

Wonder what happened to all the South African losers that Dummkopf Trumpf took in.

Living in public housing?

Waiting to join ICE?

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-20 04:06 PM

Wonder what happened to all the South African losers that Dummkopf Trumpf took in.
Living in public housing?
Waiting to join ICE?

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

They're running a train on your daughter.

#9 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-02-21 07:57 AM

"Given the crux seems to be ANY resident, is it currently required that one list every single resident of a residence to obtain housing assistance? Or does the application only require one resident to obtain funding?"

Since 1980, aliens have been banned from receiving public housing assistance. However, in 1995, they started pro-rating the benefits for "mixed families", so it wouldn't be all-or-nothing. This rule stayed intact after the 1996 Welfare Reform act and continued to be enforced by all of the administrations since then.

This doesn't just affect undocumented aliens, but also families with legal immigrants who are still in the process of adjustment of status. So as always, the far left are arguing for illegal immigration and the right are screwing over legal immigrants, and the pendulum never lands in the middle.

Nobody likes people who abuse the system, but like with the ICE deportation thing, they're basically going to screw over a lot of innocent people, including law-abiding US citizens, with a stupid zero-tolerance policy. Which will end up costing taxpayers more, in both the short and the long run.

#10 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-02-21 08:21 AM

Paying for noncitizens?
I Do Not Consent

#11 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-02-21 03:01 PM

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