Commentary: Public housing is suffering from a lack of funding, not an overflow of immigrants

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a rule change that would exclude any households with immigrants in the country illegally from living in public housing or using a voucher to help pay for private market rental housing. This rule change could result in the eviction of as many as 25,000 households from public housing. In a series of recent tweets, HUD Secretary Ben Carson has claimed that immigrants in the country illegally are taking housing that rightfully belongs to families