Housing advocates say communities just needed time to adapt to the new requirements, which created a promising mechanism to fight housing discrimination. “It’s been 50 years that we’ve been trying to further fair housing, and we’re still rolling back the clock,” Rice told HuffPost. So many people saw so much promise in the AFFH rule. Under the AFFH rule, HUD grant recipients were required to identify segregation issues and come up with solutions to counter them. Housing advocates said that the AFFH process wasn’t notably different from ones that other government departments use to implement their policies.

Source: Huffington Post June 01, 2018 21:21 UTC