HUD proposes purging 55,000 kids and their undocumented family members from public housing

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a proposed rule to evict all undocumented immigrants from public housing to the federal register Friday, setting in motion the first step towards finalizing a plan that could impact tens of thousands of undocumented parents and their U.S. citizen children.

Under this proposed rule, HUD would be prohibited from “making financial assistance available to persons other than United States citizens.” The current r...