This number seems made up. While there are illegals mentioned on the HUD website, the 5 million number does not come up.
There are several individual cases, and cases of brokers breaking the law by having illegals submit false SSNs, but they don’t add up to millions.
Until someone can confirm this, this story should NOT get legs.
Any other researchers take a look?
I’d like some source confirmation on that number. It doesn’t show up in the HUD info I’ve seen. I’d love to use it, but the data does seem suspect.