Families Under One Roof Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3024
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2019-05-24
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Family relationships

Housing and community development funding

Immigration status and procedures

Low- and moderate-income housing
Latest action: action_date: 2019-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-05-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Families Under One Roof Act of 2019</b></p> <p>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. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3024 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 24, 2019 Mr. Espaillat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To prevent the breakup of families receiving certain Federal housing assistance, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Families Under One Roof Act of 2019 . 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 .