Fair housing advocates say the proposal reduces the financial pressure on local governments to end residential segregation and discrimination, as required by the 1968 Fair Housing Act, and is the latest erosion of Obama-era regulations designed to enforce the landmark legislation. AD“The proposed rule entirely ignores the essential racial desegregation obligations of fair housing law,” said Diane Yentel, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The housing agency also wants to rank communities based on housing costs and fair market rents, among other criteria, and give top performers priority for federal housing grants. ADFair housing advocates unsuccessfully sued HUD in 2018 over what they characterized as its failure to enforce fair housing laws. Housing advocates said the new rule represent a dangerous and fundamental misunderstanding of fair housing issues.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2020 15:53 UTC