The lawsuit charges the agency with reversing decades of fair housing regulations and weakening its own enforcement capacity.
A coalition of states is suing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), claiming that the agency’s recent changes to guidance for the Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) “would make it harder to hold landlords accountable for discriminatory practices” and “reverses decades of practice,” reports Flávia Furlan Nunes in Housing Wire.
HUD’s new guidance threatens to decertify state and local housing agencies that do not adopt a narrower interpretation of the Fair Housing Act, limiting state policies that have expanded protections to additional groups. “In addition, the lawsuit accuses HUD of weakening its own enforcement capacity by reducing staffing and dropping cases.”
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