Trump Attacks a Suburban Housing Program. Critics See a Play for White Votes.

[brooklynite]

New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump has taken aim at an Obama-era program intended to eliminate racial housing disparities in the suburbs, a move proponents of the policy see as an attempt to shore up his sagging support among white suburban voters by stoking racial division.

In a Twitter post late Tuesday, Mr. Trump announced that he was considering the elimination of a 2015 initiative known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which requires localities to identify and address patterns of racial segregation outlawed under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by creating detailed corrective plans.

“At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas,” he wrote, adding, “Not fair to homeowners, I may END!”

The tweet came just a day after Mr. Trump posted a video showing a pair of angry white homeowners pointing an assault rifle and pistol in the direction of chanting protesters walking past their house in St. Louis — part of a barrage of footage on social media capturing white homeowners confronting Black bystanders, often their neighbors, for simply standing on their streets.

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