The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to make it easier for municipalities to meet requirements for reducing segregation in housing markets.
HUD released a proposal Jan. 6 that dramatically reshapes Obama-era rules for complying with the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
The new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing proposal shifts the focus from local governments’ efforts to ease segregation, as the Obama-era rules required, to looking at their efforts to create affordable housing with access to transportation and other services.
“By fixing the old Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, localities now have the flexibility to devise housing plans that ...
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