ProPublica obtained two two unpublished rules documents from the Trump administration that, according to experts we spoke with, could lead to some 4 million people losing federal housing assistance. We published the documents here.
The rules would pave the way for a host of restrictions long sought by conservatives, including time limits on living in public housing, work requirements for many people receiving federal housing assistance and the stripping of aid from entire families if one member of the household is in the country illegally.
“These are rules that are going to cause an enormous amount of hardship for millions of people in communities across the country,” said Will Fischer, director of housing policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan think tank. “It’s going to cause people to become homeless, kids to be pulled out of their schools, people to lose their jobs.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which drafted the rules, declined to comment.
