{"id":1776,"date":"2019-07-11T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2019-07-11T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:22:55","slug":"speaker-corey-johnson-and-the-new-york-city-council-submit-public-comment-to-oppose-the-u-s-department-of-housing-and-urban-development-proposed-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/07\/11\/1776\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Corey Johnson and the New York City Council Submit Public Comment to Oppose the U.S. Department  of Housing and Urban Development Proposed Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York<\/strong> \u2013 Council Speaker Corey Johnson, on behalf of the City Council, submitted a public comment to oppose the proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Housing and Development to restrict the use of federally-assisted housing for immigrant families. The proposed rule would affect 108,000 people \u2013including 55,000 children\u2014and force households with ineligible members to choose between eviction or family separation. The proposed rule targets 25,000 \u201cmixed status\u201d families by requiring proof of immigration status for rental assistance recipients.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In the 13-page long public comment to oppose the proposed rule, Speaker Johnson said that the change will have a disproportionate impact on children, people of color, the elderly and people with disabilities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the Council of the City of New York, are strongly opposed to this proposed rule. It will harm our city\u2019s residents irreparably. It will increase poverty and homelessness. It is unjust, discriminatory, and runs counter to our city\u2019s and our country\u2019s values,\u201d wrote Speaker Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York<\/strong> \u2013 Council Speaker Corey Johnson, on behalf of the City Council, submitted a public comment to oppose the proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Housing and Development to restrict the use of federally-assisted housing for immigrant families. The proposed rule would affect 108,000 people \u2013including 55,000 children\u2014and force households with ineligible members to choose between eviction or family separation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/07\/11\/1776\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}