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HUD Orders 30-Day Tenant Eligibility Checks After Audit Flags Discrepancies

The mandate follows a DHS data match that could trigger sanctions.

FILE — Public housing on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Aug. 13, 2025. A spokesman for the city’s Housing Authority said in a statement that the federal government already required documentation of all tenants’ citizenship status. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

Overview

  • HUD directed public housing authorities and HUD-assisted owners to verify tenant eligibility, including immigration status.
  • An interagency audit identified nearly 200,000 records needing verification, about 25,000 deceased entries, and nearly 6,000 ineligible noncitizen tenants.
  • Agencies that fail to act within 30 days could face sanctions, and HUD says it will recapture payments made for ineligible or deceased tenants.
  • The action cites Section 214 and President Trump’s Executive Order 14218 and draws on a HUD–DHS data-sharing agreement that matched Section 8 and 9 records with USCIS databases.
  • HUD has not released detailed audit results, and it remains unclear how many flagged cases involve unauthorized immigration versus other issues; federal rules still permit mixed-status families and eligible noncitizens to receive prorated assistance.