Trump administration ends Obama fair housing rule

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

The Trump administration on Thursday repealed an Obama administration rule meant to combat housing discrimination that President Trump has cited as he portrays presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden as a threat to suburban voters.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced it was replacing the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule implemented in 2015 with its own policy, dubbed Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice.

Under the new rule, local officials have significantly more jurisdiction in determining what qualifies as fair housing and how to promote its accessibility.

The Obama rule previously required localities to draw up plans to address housing discrimination in order to receive certain federal funding. The Trump administration gutted it more than two years ago, making it largely toothless.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/508745-trump-administration-ends-obama-fair-housing-rule

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Trump on Thursday tweeted "Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream. I will preserve it, and make it even better!"

An ABC News-Washington Post poll released last week found Biden leading Trump among suburban registered voters, 52 percent-43 percent.

[Evolve Dammit]

1. Well, he and his Dad were found guilty in the largest housing discrimination case in NYC history....

[Cha]

2. Of Course the Treasonous Racists Fucks did.

[TeamPooka]

3. race baiting bastard

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Are Trump's run-ins with HUD in the early 70s the total explanation

for his dislike of the Federal Government?

[FM123]

5. So evil!

"It’s a dark day for the country when the President boasts about maintaining housing segregation, and the agency charged with carrying out the Fair Housing Act becomes a tool to help him do it," Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) , the ranking member of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, said in a statement.

[Roy Rolling]

6. I live in the suburbs

Keep Trump and his mindless cult out of my neighborhood. He thinks people would rather have a Trump cultist living next door than a hardworking, peaceful person of color.

Like everything else, he’s totally wrong. Nobody wants his like around here, and those who are hardcore about Trump say it only among fellow cult members.

[PSPS]

7. "Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice" -- "choice" is the GOP's favorite go-to dog whistle

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[rpannier]

9. That'll get him votes of the undecideds