Carson likely to roll back housing equality rule [View all]
Source: The Hill
Ben Carson, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), signaled Thursday that he might roll back an Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing housing discrimination in cities.
In an exchange with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the ranking member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Carson said he agrees with the spirit of a regulation that puts teeth in the Fair Housing Act -- but not the rule in practice.
"As you probably know, that act says that we want people who are receiving HUD grants to look around and see if they find anything that looks like discrimination, and then we want them to come up with a solution on how to find the problem," Carson, 65, told the panel.
"They’re not responding to people saying there’s a problem, they’re saying go and look for a problem and give us a solution."
Brown was asking about the Obama administration's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, released in 2015, that has drawn ire from many conservatives and is sure to be a focus of Thursday’s confirmation hearing.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/313970-carson-likely-to-roll-back-housing-equality-rule
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