Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m CalMatters housing affordability reporter Felicia Mello.
One in 5 California kids comes from a mixed-status household, through which at the very least one member is undocumented, in keeping with the California Immigrant Knowledge Portal. Concern is rising amongst housing advocates that these households threat dropping entry to federal housing help as soon as President-elect Donald Trump takes workplace.
That’s as a result of Trump administration officers proposed such a change throughout his first time period, floating a rule that may have barred mixed-status households from receiving public housing and Part 8 vouchers. (At the moment, mixed-status households can get pro-rated advantages primarily based on what number of members of the family are eligible.) The change was by no means carried out, however Los Angeles housing authorities estimated on the time that it will have led to the displacement of greater than 10,000 individuals in that metropolis alone.
If the federal authorities had been to enact an identical rule right this moment, “there’s a large number of households in California that would be impacted — mixed-status families who would have to make that hard choice of separating as a family or leaving their housing and quite possibly not being able to find an alternative,” Chione Flegal, govt director of the advocacy group Housing California, informed me earlier this week.
Trump has supplied few specifics about his housing plans. However the Heritage Basis’s Mission 2025 blueprint for a second Trump administration, in a piece written by former Housing and City Growth Secretary Ben Carson, requires reviving the ban on mixed-status householdstogether with including deadlines and work necessities for housing advantages and promoting off land owned by public housing authorities.
California might push again by supplementing Part 8 voucher funding or utilizing state cash to construct reasonably priced housing that wouldn’t be sure by the federal guidelines, Flegal mentioned – although that may be “incredibly expensive.”
You will discover out extra about how an incoming Trump administration may have an effect on housing affordability within the state – from elevating tariffs on building supplies to constructing “Freedom Cities” on federal land – in my story.
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