In the last year alone, HUD has proposed rolling back two key Obama-era rules meant to crack down on housing segregation.President Donald Trump is threatening to revoke a sweeping Obama-era fair housing rule, stepping up his administration’s efforts to gut anti-discrimination laws amid a national reckoning with race.The 2015 rule — which the Obama administration introduced to bolster enforcement of the landmark Fair Housing Act of 1968 — required local governments to track patterns of poverty and segregation with a checklist of 92 questions in order to gain access to federal housing funds.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, meanwhile, has proposed cutting back on collecting data that helps track discrimination in the mortgage market.
At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas. The agency has filed fewer anti-discrimination enforcement actions under the two directors installed by Trump.“Since the issuance of the 2015 final rule, HUD has determined that the current regulations are overly burdensome to both HUD and grantees and are ineffective in helping program participants meet their reporting obligations,” the agency said when it rolled out the revision in January.HUD did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s tweet Wednesday.The 2015 rule required local governments to track patterns of poverty and segregation with a checklist of 92 questions in order to gain access to federal housing funds. This funding would be nearly impossible for communities to forego.The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation, AFFH for short, is like Affirmative Action for community planning.
In the last year alone, HUD has proposed rolling back two key Obama-era rules meant to crack down on housing … In 1968, when it passed the Fair Housing Act, Congress made a promise to the American people that it would end discrimination in housing … SECRETARY CARSON TERMINATES 2015 AFFH RULE Removal of rule returns power to localities in effort to advance fair housing nationwide. The Fair Housing … President Trump and Republicans need to say this clearly and often.On its face, this policy, with the enhancement proposed by Booker, shreds several levels of the federalist system. The AFFH rule was meant to fulfill requirements of the Fair Housing Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Combine the Obama-Biden administration’s radical AFFH regulation with Booker’s new strategy, and I don’t see how the suburbs can retain their ability to govern themselves. WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson today announced the Department will ultimately terminate the Obama Administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation issued in 2015, … Americans should have a wide range of choices about the type of communities they live in. According to Kurtz, there are three elements to the strategy that effectively integrate the suburbs with their urban neighbors:Educate your neighbors in outlying areas. AFFH will end that debate.Initially, the AFFH used HUD grants to bring suburban communities into compliance. Click here to read a joint statement condemning the administration’s latest move to dismantle AFFH.. Background. President Trump needs to direct HUD Secretary Ben Carson to gut the AFFH immediately and remove any federal leverage over zoning that still exists.However, my bet is if they figured out Joe Biden was planning on destroying their communities, they might be a little more attuned to their self-interest. “The viability of our 1.4 million members depends on the free, transparent and efficient transfer of property in this country, and NAR maintains that a strong, affirmative fair housing rule is vital to advancing our nation’s progress toward thriving and inclusive communities,” he added. White House.