{"id":11336,"date":"2025-08-05T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:47:24","slug":"leading-civil-rights-organizations-urge-hud-to-uphold-fair-housing-protections-against-disparate-impact-rollbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/leading-civil-rights-organizations-urge-hud-to-uphold-fair-housing-protections-against-disparate-impact-rollbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Civil Rights Organizations Urge HUD to Uphold Fair Housing Protections Against Disparate Impact Rollbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\"><strong>Leading Civil Rights Organizations Urge HUD to Uphold Fair Housing Protections Against Disparate Impact Rollbacks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Washington, D.C. \u2013 On Friday, a coalition of leading civil and human rights organizations issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-05_Letter-from-NFHA-et-al-to-HUD-Secretary-Scott-Turner-re-Disparate-Impact_FINAL2.pdf\">joint letter<\/a> to Scott Turner, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), expressing grave concern over reports that the agency intends to abandon multiple fair housing investigations and compliance actions. During a fair and affordable housing crisis in the United States, this action would be devastating for victims of housing and lending discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">This letter comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution\">ProPublica report<\/a> revealed HUD is preparing to close at least seven major housing discrimination cases, including three in which the agency had already found that state and local governments under investigation had increased segregation and concentrated environmental hazards in communities of color. These cases challenge both disparate treatment and disparate impact discrimination, including claims under the long-established disparate impact provision of the Fair Housing Act. Civil rights leaders warn that such a reversal would be not only harmful to millions of Americans but is also legally indefensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">\u201cThis retreat contradicts settled law, ignores HUD\u2019s own regulations and represents a dangerous abdication of the agency\u2019s mandate,\u201d the groups wrote in the letter. \u201cReversing or dismissing meritorious fair housing cases is a dereliction of duty and a violation of sworn commitments to uphold and vigorously enforce the Fair Housing Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">The Fair Housing Act explicitly prohibits both intentional discrimination and policies that have a disparate impact on protected groups without sufficient justification. This critical protection \u2013 recognized by every federal appeals court and reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Texas Dept. of Housing &amp; Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project \u2013 requires that housing policies be fair in effect as well as intent. HUD\u2019s regulations affirm this standard, and no Executive Order can override the law or agency rules codified at 24 C.F.R. 100.500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">\u201cHUD has no discretion to disregard valid legal complaints,\u201d they state. \u201cThe Fair Housing Act mandates that HUD investigate all jurisdictional complaints and determine whether reasonable cause exists. Ignoring this duty undermines HUD\u2019s obligation to affirmatively further fair housing and violates the statute\u2019s core purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">The groups have also requested a meeting with HUD leadership to address these urgent concerns and ensure that the agency remains in full compliance with federal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-05_Letter-from-NFHA-et-al-to-HUD-Secretary-Scott-Turner-re-Disparate-Impact_FINAL2.pdf\">full letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><em>The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is the country\u2019s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and ensuring equal opportunities for all people. As the trade association for 200 fair housing and justice-centered organizations throughout the U.S. and its territories, NFHA works to dismantle longstanding barriers to equity and build diverse, inclusive, well-resourced communities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Leading Civil Rights Organizations Urge HUD to Uphold Fair Housing Protections Against Disparate Impact Rollbacks Washington, D.C. \u2013 On Friday, a coalition of leading civil and human rights organizations issued a joint letter to Scott Turner, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), expressing grave concern over reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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