The Department of Housing and Urban Development said it would punish public housing authorities that did not adequately verify tenants’ immigration status within 30 days.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development said it would punish public housing authorities that did not adequately verify tenants’ immigration status within 30 days.
Public housing on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A spokesman for the city’s Housing Authority said in a statement that the federal government already required documentation of all tenants’ citizenship status.