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Bar noncitizens and mixed-status families from federally assisted housing

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 15, p. 509. Written by Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD.

Bar noncitizens and mixed-status families from federally assisted housing

The document says “should”Who acts: HUDHow: regulationp. 509 in the PDF
What the document says

“The Office of the Secretary should recommence proposed regulation put forward under the Trump Administration that would prohibit noncitizens, including all mixed-status families, from living in all federally assisted housing.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 509

A mixed-status family is one in which some members are eligible for assistance and some are not. The chapter says the department's statutory obligations include housing American citizens in need, asks for alignment with immigration-related reforms elsewhere including the public charge framework, and says local welfare organizations rather than the federal government should provide housing welfare for noncitizens.

What the document actually says

“The Office of the Secretary should recommence proposed regulation put forward under the Trump Administration that would prohibit noncitizens, including all mixed-status families, from living in all federally assisted housing.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 509
That sentence, in plain words

Restart the rule from the last Trump term. It would keep noncitizens out of assisted housing.

What this is about

Some families have members who can get housing help and members who cannot. The book says the whole family should be barred. It wants a rule from before brought back.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. EO 14218 directs every agency to identify federally funded programs that let illegal aliens obtain a benefit and to align them with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. It is aimed at people unlawfully present rather than at all noncitizens, it names no housing program, and it does not recommence the HUD rulemaking the proposal asks for, which would reach lawfully present noncitizens and the mixed-status families they live in. The candidate rules rescind Energy Department nondiscrimination regulations, not housing eligibility rules. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 509.
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    “Bar noncitizens and mixed-status families from federally assisted housing,” Project 2025, chapter 15, p. 509. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch15-bar-noncitizens-from-assisted-housing/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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