Trump administration endorses redlining, stops enforcing fair housing laws

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Hundreds of pending fair housing cases have been frozen, and some settlements revoked, even when accusations of discrimination had been substantiated. In one instance, a large homeowner’s association in Texas was found to have banned the use of housing vouchers by Black residents. That case had been referred to the Justice Department, but the referral was abruptly withdrawn by the new Trump appointees. “The sudden abandonment of the case was a pretty significant about-face,” said Rebecca Livengood, a lawyer with Relman Colfax in Washington, D.C., who represented the housing authority that had sued the homeowner’s association. “There’s every reason to think that in another administration, what were, at that point, sustained allegations of widespread racial discrimination would have been pursued.”

Fair housing cases have historically covered a broad range of civil rights violations. They have targeted real estate agents who did not want to show Black buyers homes in white neighborhoods. They have involved landlords refusing to rent to single mothers with children, or people of a certain religion. They have combated discrimination against disabled veterans who needed to live with a service animal. And in recent years, they have protected survivors of domestic violence from being denied housing assistance when attempting to escape a stalker or abuser. They included appraisal bias, which typically involves white appraisers undervaluing homes owned by Black families; zoning restrictions used to block housing that might be occupied by Black and Latino families; and gender or gender expression cases, including new housing protections added under the Biden administration.

Last week, John Gibbs, the Trump-appointed principal deputy assistant secretary for fair housing, sent two memos detailing how “future enforcement efforts will proceed.” In previous administrations, he wrote, fair housing offices “leveraged the Fair Housing Act” against mortgage providers, appraisers and others “in an ideological matter,” but that would now change. Cases involving “tenuous theories of discrimination” would “no longer be prioritized,” he wrote. The memos also described previous approaches to redlining and reverse redlining as “legally unsound.” The two racist practices involve denying mortgages to minorities and those in minority neighborhoods, and other predatory and discriminatory lending practices. A full review of the organization’s guidance on those subjects, added, was ongoing.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/realestate/trump-fair-housing-laws.html

 

[RiverCity916]

Man what the fukk

 

[get these nets]

He said he was going to turn the clock back, and he did.

Dumb ass MFers who for years said that the Civil Rights Movement "accomplished nothing" have to sit back and watch the Trump admin. dial back, halt , and dismantle the rights and protections that were fought for.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

@CBalla

 

[Brolic]

I’m sure this won’t affect the FBA family.

 

[coldcall]

Those reparation checks should be arriving any day now.

 

[acri1]

 

[CBalla]

@CBalla

Why did you @ me?

 

[King Sun]

 

[Outlaw]

Why did you @ me?

Because you’re a c00n who supports Trump

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

This CAC piece of shyt almost got assassinated. This is his second term and he will be dead of old age within a decade.


So he don’t give a fukk about nothing. It’s apparently obvious.

But I don’t blame him. I blame all of the uneducated ignorant non reading ass entitled US citizens. I blame all of the c00ns who want to be white, and all of the non white dumbasses that want to accepted among a group of people that don’t give a fukk about them.

 

[Neuromancer]

Who does this affect?

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

This is fukked up. All the shyt that was fought for was in vain because of smart/dumb nikkas.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

He said he was going to turn the clock back, and he did.

Dumb ass MFers who for years said that the Civil Rights Movement "accomplished nothing" have to sit back and watch the Trump admin. dial back, halt , and dismantle the rights and protections that were fought for.

Spoiler

For the record, I agree

But devils advocate, if after 60 years of CRM, I still need a housing voucher, then it hasn't accomplished what it set out to do.

 

[invalid]

on this beautiful monday morning, i log into this site and already bout to crash out.

im logging out.

trump supporters and both siders need to be banned from this site.

Spoiler

For the record, I agree

But devils advocate, if after 60 years of CRM, I still need a housing voucher, then it hasn't accomplished what it set out to do.

you need a housing voucher because you don't meet income thresholds, not because you're black (*technically/in theory).