The Trump administration has launched a nationwide review of public housing to identify and remove residents living in the country illegally, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announced.
In a directive, Turner said each public housing authority has 30 days to conduct an audit to verify compliance with existing rules. Agencies are being asked to provide information on housing units and confirm the citizenship or “eligible immigration status” of residents.
“No longer will illegal aliens be able to leave citizenship boxes blank or take advantage of HUD-funded housing, riding the coattails of hardworking American citizens,” Turner wrote earlier this month.
“Currently, HUD only serves one out of four eligible families due, in part, to the lack of enforcement of prohibition against federally funded assistance to illegal aliens,” he added.
Programs that fail to comply with the review could face scrutiny of their federal funding, HUD Secretary Scott Turner warned.
