Trump threatens funding for housing authorities shielding illegal immigrants

EXCLUSIVE — President Donald Trump‘s Department of Housing and Urban Development is giving every public housing authority in the country 30 days to share citizenship status of tenants or risk losing their federal funding.

By law, every PHA is required to share eligibility information, including citizenship status, with HUD. Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act specifically bars illegal immigrants from public housing programs. However, two senior HUD officials, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive information, tell the Washington Examiner that a significant number have either not shared citizenship information with the government, or were simply never collecting that information in the first place.