'Dear America': HUD workers say they're being blocked from doing their jobs
Source: NPR
April 16, 2026 6:00 AM ET
A small number of current and former employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development launched a website Thursday to accuse the Trump administration of blocking enforcement of federal fair housing laws. They chose to remain anonymous out of concern they'd be fired for speaking out.
"This administration has ground fair housing enforcement to a halt," states one letter, posted on DearAmericaletters.org. "Worse, they're picking and choosing which protected classes count.". "I pray for justice for every person unfairly denied a safe place to live," states another. A third, signed by "a tired HUD employee," states, "Months later, I still think about the people impacted by the work I was forced to abandon."
Last fall, two HUD civil rights lawyers were fired after going to Congress with concerns that the agency was unlawfully restricting fair housing enforcement. More than six months later, "it's still happening," says one of them, Paul Osadebe, who helped launch the site and spoke to NPR in his personal capacity and as a union steward with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 476.
"We're not being allowed to help the people that we're supposed to be serving," he said. "If it's something to do with race, if it's anything to do with gender, you're just not allowed to touch that anymore.". NPR has requested comment from HUD about the accusations by agency employees.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5780859/hud-employees-trump-policy-protest-letters-website
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