Friday, March 6, 11am – 12pm
Over Zoom
Register Below
Se ofrecerá interpretación al español
At Mass Union’s Fall 2025 convention, tenants voted on our policy priorities. Our #1 priority: to protect immigrants in public housing. On February 20, 2026, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a proposed change to federal regulations, denying federally subsidized housing to certain immigrants in “mixed-status” families. For decades, federal law has allowed these families to live in federal public housing. This change is just a proposal – it is not in effect.
Mass Union and our allies will be fighting back against this proposal so that no family in our community has to choose between homelessness and separation. Join us on March 6 at 11am to learn more and get involved! We will:
-
- Learn more about HUD’s proposal – what it would do and who would be affected – from experts at the National Housing Law Project and Mass Law Reform Institute
- Learn how we can fight back together by submitting comments to HUD
- Get tips and help for writing a powerful comment
More Information about HUD’s Proposal to Deny Housing to Certain Immigrants
-
- The proposal could evict 80,000 people from their homes. This includes nearly 37,000 children.
- The proposal also introduces new and stricter requirements that all tenants prove their citizenship or eligible immigration status. This creates an expensive and unnecessary administrative burden for tenants and Housing Authorities alike.
- In its own cost-benefit analysis, HUD calculated that this proposal would lead to a loss of $300 million dollars per year for Housing Authorities, because mixed-status families pay higher rents than other families.
Special Presenter: Marie Claire Tran-Leung, National Housing Law Project (NHLP)
Marie Claire Tran-Leung is the Evictions Initiative Project Director and a Senior Staff Attorney at NHLP. Her work focuses on federal, state, and local advocacy to help keep individuals and families in their homes by stopping evictions and reforming landlord/tenant laws. Before joining NHLP in 2022, Marie Claire led multi-state advocacy networks at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, most recently as the director of its Legal Impact Network. She was also a Soros Justice Fellow and a proud alumna of the Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Institute.
Read More
