Washington, D.C. – The Trump Administration is expected to terminate half of all employees at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).“President Trump’s directive will cause more…
NLIHC signed on to four letters in support of HUD’s proposed rule that would reinstate the 2013 Disparate Impact Rule (see Memo, 6/28). Two of the letters provide overarching reasons for reinstating…
HUD’s proposed rule reinstating the 2013 Disparate Impact Rule was published in the Federal Register on June 25. The rule will recodify the 2013 rule’s discriminatory effects standard, removing most…
HUD’s Interim Final Rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) was published in the Federal Register on June 10. The rule will restore the statutory definition of AFFH and some…
HUD’s proposed rule on disparate impact has cleared review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The proposal, which has been at…
HUD submitted on April 13 to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a proposed rule reinstating the 2013 Disparate Impact Rule and an…
As congressional leaders are moving quickly to negotiate final details in a compromise COVID-19 relief package, including $25 billion in emergency rental assistance, for the next three months,…
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, led 30 of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to President Trump on September 17,…
Congress passed and President Trump signed into law a $2 trillion direct spending bill to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The bill passed out of the Senate the evening of March 25 on a unanimous…
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will hold a hearing, “A Threat to America’s Children: The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance will hold a hearing, “A Future Without Public Housing? Examining the Trump Administration’s Efforts to…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of December 29: “Ben Carson’s latest plan to weaken fair housing enforcement,” The Washington Post, January 3…