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The bill increases clarity and aligns HUD grant flows with immigration-based eligibility—potentially reducing federal spending on non-citizen recipients and preserving grants for jurisdictions that restrict assistance—at the cost of excluding many non‑LPR immigrants from housing help, increasing homelessness and local program burdens, and weakening community and tribal housing planning in affected areas.
States, localities, and tribes that limit housing assistance to lawful permanent residents can retain access to HUD §5303 planning grants, preserving funding for jurisdictions that adopt citizenship-based eligibility.
Local governments and nonprofits will have clearer eligibility rules for Section 106-funded assistance beginning FY2024, reducing legal uncertainty about who may receive funds.
Taxpayers could see reduced federal outlays to non-citizen recipients and potentially to jurisdictions that assist non-citizens, aligning grant spending with immigration eligibility priorities.
Immigrants who are neither U.S. nationals nor lawful permanent residents will be barred from receiving Section 106 housing assistance funded in FY2024 and later, reducing access to housing for immigrant individuals and families.
Restrictions and local decisions to refuse assistance to non-LPR applicants will shrink program reach and continuity, increasing homelessness and housing instability among vulnerable people.
Jurisdictions that are barred from or decline HUD §5303 grants to comply with or avoid the ban could lose community planning and development funding, reducing support for low-income renters and local housing programs.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits certain HUD community development grant funds from assisting non‑U.S. nationals and non‑lawful permanent residents and bars grants to jurisdictions that operate programs serving those individuals, effective FY2024.
Bars federal community development grants from being used to help people who are neither U.S. nationals nor lawful permanent residents, starting in fiscal year 2024. It also makes state, local, and tribal grantees ineligible for certain planning grants if they operate any program that provides such assistance, effectively conditioning grant eligibility on not serving non‑nation, non‑LPR individuals. This change affects how HUD funding can be spent and who can receive assistance under those grants, and it requires grantees to ensure their programs do not provide covered assistance to undocumented or non‑permanent resident individuals to remain eligible for the affected grants.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress January 3, 2025