{"id":104096,"date":"2019-07-11T10:53:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104096"},"modified":"2019-07-11T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:53:16","slug":"attorney-general-james-leads-coalition-opposing-trump-administration-rule-to-deny-critical-housing-assistance-to-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104096","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General James leads coalition opposing Trump Administration rule to deny critical housing assistance to immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Attorney General Letitia James<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Proposed rule could leave more than 55,000 children homeless <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 23\nstates, today submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and\nUrban Development (HUD) opposing a new rule proposal that would deny housing\nassistance to mixed-status families that include any undocumented immigrants.\nThe new proposal would result in the eviction of thousands of families,\nincluding many children and lawful residents and citizens, who rely on housing\nassistance for their homes. If enacted, the Proposed Rule would harm the\nStates, their residents, their local economies, and public health. The\ncoalition was co-led by New York and the District of Columbia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf this rule is enacted, the Trump Administration will once\nagain be tearing families apart, and this time, it won\u2019t be at the border, but\nin our communities,\u201d said Attorney General Letitia James. \u201cThreatening to evict\ntens of thousands of children from their homes and put them on the streets is\ndespicable and reverses decades of standard, well-reasoned federal policy. We\nwill not sit idly by as this administration continues to launch these\ndiscriminatory attacks against immigrants and penalize those states that\nwelcome them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 30 years, laws governing public housing and\nHUD rules have prioritized family unity and the preservation of the family\nunit. Accordingly, the law has for decades allowed families with mixed\nimmigration status to receive public housing subsidies, so long as ineligible\nfamily members did not themselves receive any financial subsidies. The new\nproposal, announced in April 2019, would prohibit family members who are\nundocumented from residing in their homes. In many cases, the eligible family\nmembers are children, and these minors would not be able to live without their\nparents, resulting in the effective eviction of entire families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As HUD’s own analysis concludes, the Proposed Rule would\neliminate housing assistance for more than 108,000 people, including at least\n55,000 children, many of whom are U.S. citizens or otherwise eligible for\nhousing assistance. In New York alone, it is estimated that more than 11,400\npeople would be impacted, at least half of them being children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the comment letter submitted today, the attorneys general\nargue that this substantial loss of housing benefits will also cause\nsignificant economic and social harms to the States, including greater\nhomelessness, reduced productivity, and a higher incidence of significant\nhealth problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

States will have to bear significant administrative and\nsocial benefit costs if the rule goes into effect. Private housing providers\nwill be far less likely to participate in subsidized housing programs, leaving\nStates to find additional affordable housing options and to plan for increased\nrates of evictions and homelessness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining New York Attorney General James and District of\nColumbia Attorney General Racine in submitting the comment letter are the\nAttorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii,\nIllinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada,\nNew Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia,\nand Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proposed rule could leave more than 55,000 children homeless Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 23 states, today submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opposing a new rule proposal that would deny housing assistance to mixed-status families that include any undocumented immigrants. The new proposal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}