Title: Families Under One Roof Act of 2019
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Families Under One Roof Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make low-income housing assistance available for otherwise qualifying families with at least one member who has eligible immigration status.
Specifically, a family with at least one member who has been affirmatively established as eligible for assistance, and no member who has been affirmatively established as ineligible due to immigration status, is eligible for prorated assistance based on the number of family members with established eligibility. Current law specifies that any assistance to such a mixed-status family must be prorated, and HUD has generally allowed such a family to receive assistance in this manner. However, a proposed HUD rule from May 10, 2019, would generally prohibit assistance to mixed-status families.
The bill further specifies that, if such assistance for an individual is to be terminated on the basis of immigration status, it may instead be continued if necessary to avoid the division of a family in which any member has eligible immigration status. Under current law, such assistance may be continued under these circumstances only if the head of household or the individual's spouse has eligible immigration status.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3024 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3024

 To prevent the breakup of families receiving certain Federal housing 
                  assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2019

Mr. Espaillat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prevent the breakup of families receiving certain Federal housing 
                  assistance, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Families Under One Roof Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. USE OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE BY NON-RESIDENT ALIENS.

    (a) Eligibility of Mixed Status Families.--Paragraph (2) of section 
214(b) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 
1436a(b)(2)) is amended by striking ``any'' and inserting ``the family 
shall be eligible for financial assistance and the amount of''.
    (b) Preservation of Families.--Subparagraph (A) of section 
214(c)(1) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 (42 
U.S.C. 1436a(c)(1)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``the head of 
        household or spouse'' and inserting ``any member''; and
            (2) in the second sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``a head of household'' and 
                inserting ``such member''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the head of household'' each 
                place such term appears and inserting ``such member''.
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