HUD Orders 30-Day Audit to Remove Illegals From Public Housing
“American citizens will be prioritized,” Turner said.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner announced Friday that the Trump administration is launching a sweeping review of public housing authorities across the country to ensure illegal immigrants are not benefiting from taxpayer-funded assistance.
The beginning of the end for illegals living in taxpayer-funded housing starts now.@POTUS promised to put Americans first and HUD is delivering results.
Get ready @Sec_Noem and @StephenM! pic.twitter.com/UNR6otW976
— Scott Turner (@SecretaryTurner) August 30, 2025
Turner said every public housing authority has 30 days to conduct an audit and verify 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.
The secretary stressed that weak enforcement under previous administrations left thousands of American families on waiting lists.
“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,” Turner continued.
HUD warned that noncompliance could lead to an “examination” of federal funding. Turner told Fox News’ Charles Hurt on Jesse Watters Primetime that Washington, D.C., has already been placed on notice and that more than 3,000 other public housing authorities will face the same requirements.
“American citizens will be prioritized,” Turner said.
Republicans welcomed the move.
Anyone in this country illegally should be deported, not given publicly funded housing! https://t.co/XyEyQg4Gt1
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) August 30, 2025
Others were more skeptical, with one former HUD employee calling it duplicative:
This is already the law – proof of citizenship is a requirement for any public housing or section 8 unit.
Requiring a second, immediate accounting will not provide a massive correction or eviction. It will simply divert staff from serving American seniors, vets etc. https://t.co/Hd2JXrJbI0
— Cat Vielma (@catvielma) August 30, 2025
No. I worked at HUD & helped oversee the policy guidance. It’s a great policy that is in effect. Just think we need to serve our veterans and seniors instead of duplicating efforts.
— Cat Vielma (@catvielma) August 31, 2025
The audit follows a March memorandum between Turner and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to expand oversight of public benefits.
“The entire government will work together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally,” Noem said. “If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over.”
Watch the full interview with the HUD Secretary below:
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It absolutely must be done, albeit the pucker factor will be high. The hostile foreign invaders and their American allies WILL resort to major violence and have the support of the Leftist media.
Subotai Bahadur
“No. I worked at HUD & helped oversee the policy guidance. It’s a great policy that is in effect. Just think we need to serve our veterans and seniors instead of duplicating efforts.”
This chick is truly stupid if she really believes that freeing up actual places for them to live isn’t the #1 best way for HUD to serve vets and seniors.
“This is already the law – proof of citizenship is a requirement for any public housing or section 8 unit. ”
Maybe the real “duplicative effort” needed here is to throw into federal prisons the HUD personnel who continually allow illegals access to public housing despite “leaving the citizenship field blank” in violation of this law.
If we look carefully at the HUD memo we see how this is being applied ‘…tenants who are receiving Sec 8 and/or residing in HUD funding housing..’
Non Citizens have been ‘eligible’ under prior administrations via waivers and discretion including illegal aliens. Jane is a Citizen and her husband is an illegal alien. James name and status goes on the tenancy application and they move in together. Same playbook works for eligible non citizen, lawful aliens.
The thing MS Vielma is ignoring is that there’s not traditionally been a whole lot of oversight by HUD. They send out funds to the something like 2,000 separate local housing authorities who manage the day to day eligibility, approval and operations …supposedly with strict adherence to HUD rules/statute/policy. Any bets on whether the housing authority in a deep blue sanctuary city is scrupulously adhering and ruthlessly enforcing those eligibility rules such as allowing someone not on the lease to reside there?
This is likely to kick over a bigger kettle of fish than many believe and demonstrate how out of compliance these local housing authorities are with HUD requirements. These local Housing Authorities are being told to find out who is living there, not just names on the lease, and report back to HUD their citizenship status and/or immigration status. Add in the other bared categories like previous eviction from HUD property, serious felonies and sex offenders on top and there’s no way these local housing authorities are running it by the book.
She isn’t stupid. She knows full well what Biden and his band of sycophants were up to. Illegals that they encouraged to pour over our open borders are or were given free housing, food, phones, medical care etc at the expense of our citizens. Remember the controversy when it was found out that Biden was prioritizing illegal aliens getting healthcare at our VA hospitals over our veterens? This chick is gaslighting in the attempt to memory hole all of this.
Yep. She’s well aware there’s all sorts of exceptions granted from Biden era HUD and that local housing authorities don’t conduct rigorous oversight on continuing eligibility based on actual occupancy unless it comes to them from external sources.
Another laudable, long-overdue cleanup of piles of stinking doo-doo left behind, over decades, by the lawless, illegal alien-coddling Dhimmi-crat toddler-apparatchiks.
More praise is due to #47 and his team, for delivering on their promises.
I voted for this.
I don’t think anyone questions what the policy guidance was, just the implementation. The law may require proof of eligibility, but if the secretary is ordering an eligibility verification audit, it is reasonable to believe there is evidence of fraud or other abuse. It wouldn’t be the first time a bureaucrat thought they knew better that a policy maker or the legislature and could ignore both.
This could mean little to nothing. Anchor babies are, as it stands now, legal citizens. They are entitled to all types of assistance as citizens. How that affects housing I do not know, but I have personally heard that families obtain SNAP assistance that way and, of course, Medicaid for those children.
I got the easy but draconian solution for that. The Parent is automatically/presumptively an ‘unfit’ Parent for putting their child at risk/risking deportation. Remove the children to CPS care or to a lawful relative, deport the Parents and offer to pay for transport of their children to accompany them if the Parents don’t want their child to remain with relatives or CPS.
Problem solved. ‘Oh I have a child that was born in the USA’ Good for you, get on the plane back home and bring them with you or abandon them to relatives or CPS. No points for getting knocked up.
I’ve been reading this stuff for years, and that’s the smartest thing that I’ve ever heard you write.
“This is already the law – proof of citizenship is a requirement for any public housing or section 8 unit.” Well that solves it. There is already a law that prevents illegals from Medicaid but states are finding that people blow right through that law.
E Verify is supposed to be the law but that doesn’t seem to stop illegals for getting jobs with fake social security cards and drivers licenses does it.
And with those fake SS cards and drivers licenses is the ID proof allowing them to vote.
Even when it was used, it wasn’t reliable. Both the meat packers in NE and the police department in ME claimed they used the system. Forged documents give illegals a clear check.
Then there’s the guys who paid under the table to avoid the system.
But crossing the border was “their only crime”, right?
E verify isn’t mandatory at the Federal level. It is an optional tool to assist employers in compliance with their obligation to comply with employment laws. It isn’t the most complete data set but it is better than nothing. Some States make it mandatory across the board, some require it for employers over a minimum number of employees. Some like Utah have made it ‘mandatory’ but only for employers with 150 employees. IMO the there needs to be a couple changes. First E verify needs to incorporate all federal data; SSA, immigration, IRS, plus State/local data of DL, death certificates, workman comp IN, unemployment IN, all benefit programs, education data as well as prison, parole, probation, arrest, court data to get the most accurate composite answer to the question ‘Is X person eligible for lawful employment’. Then make use of E Verify a presumptive defense for employers charged with hiring illegal aliens…and if they don’t use it that’s a presumption they didn’t try to meet their obligation to refuse to hire ineligible workers. Prosecute the employers ruthlessly using a TF of ICE, IRS, SSA to dig into their paperwork and if necessary use civil asset forfeiture or at least impound the plant equipment, vehicles, tools on site until ‘things get sorted’.
we only owe the veterans of the military no one else
Injunction from a judge lacking jurisdiction and authority coming in 3…2…1…
Yeah, after seeing how many illegals were collecting EBT cards and Medicaid, I’m not going to trust the swamp creature when she tells me that it’s not an issue.
Not just EBT cards. Near us illegals are being put up in a hotel, given free food and clothing plus medical care and the government got them jobs at my wife’s place of business. Not only that, the government rented a van to drive them to and from work.
I will point out that even with all of that they still had a hard time keeping them employed. As one of the guys who quit told her ” why work when we are going to get free stuff for a year and can sit around the hotel pool”? Why indeed?
Not to worry. If the illegals get kicked out, Catholic Charities will put them up. They love illegals and importing third-world vermin into the country.
They won’t do it unless they get Federal money to do it. Their golden goose done got plucked by Trump.
Before he can put other people in them, HUD will have to spend billions on them. You’ll find them stripped to the walls and all the metals gone from them. That’s the way that these border-jumpers treat gifts from the American people.
Well, if the Mad Emperor of Big Rock Candy Mountain broke down his gate and welcomed you in, you’d crack some of the Palace off and put it in your fanny pack for later, wouldn’t you?