Sponsor
Charles Roy
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
Official title: To amend the Housing and Community Development Act to prohibit grant funding to Sanctuary Cities and codify 'Mixed-Status' rule to prevent the prorating of housing assistance to households with illegal alien residents.
Introduced May 20, 2026 by Charles Roy · Last progress May 20, 2026
The bill aims to reduce improper housing assistance payments and increase cooperation with immigration enforcement, but does so by restricting access for many noncitizen households and imposing verification, administrative, and compliance burdens on local governments and service providers, risking housing instability and reduced service uptake among immigrant communities.
Local governments and nonprofit grant recipients will be required to verify eligibility for every household member before providing prorated federal housing assistance, which is intended to reduce improper payments and ensure federal housing funds go only to eligible households.
HUD grant recipients will be required to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, enabling more direct information-sharing between HUD grantees and federal immigration agencies about removable noncitizens.
Immigrants who are not U.S. nationals or lawful permanent residents will be barred from receiving CDBG/HOME-funded housing and community-development assistance beginning in FY2024, reducing access to federally funded housing services for those noncitizen populations.
Low-income mixed-status families may lose or face delays in housing assistance because assistance cannot be prorated while verification for all household members is pending, threatening housing stability for citizens and lawful residents in mixed households.
Requiring advance notice to ICE about the release of removable noncitizens and conditioning grants on cooperation with enforcement may undermine trust between immigrant communities and service providers, chilling uptake of housing and other social services.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars HUD CDBG/HOME and certain HUD grants from assisting non‑U.S. nationals or non‑LPRs, requires verification for all family members, and conditions grants on cooperation with immigration enforcement.
Prohibits use of HUD formula and community development grants to assist non‑U.S. nationals and non‑lawful permanent residents and tightens verification rules for assisted housing. It bars prorated assistance when any family member’s immigration status cannot be verified, removes a prior exception that allowed removal of assistance, conditions certain HUD grants on compliance with federal immigration‑enforcement cooperation (including honoring ICE detainers and advance notice of releases), and prevents CDBG funds (FY2024 onward) and certain HUD grants from going to jurisdictions or entities that provide housing or community development aid to persons who are not U.S. nationals or lawful permanent residents.