Take Action to Stop HUD's Proposed Rule Eliminating a Fair Housing Discrimination Enforcement Tool

In a newly proposed rule released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), it proposes eliminating disparate impact—one of the most impactful tools to fight acts of housing and lending discrimination. 

If the proposed HUD rule is made final, the department would remove its discriminatory effects regulation making it profoundly more difficult for housing providers, financial services companies, and consumers to understand and enforce their rights under the law. 

Disparate impact is a common-sense tool that prevents discrimination that is not explicit and challenges the use of proxies for race, gender, and other protected characteristics that might lock people out of housing opportunities. It also requires housing providers, financial institutions, and municipalities to ensure everyone has a fair shot to obtain safe, secure, and affordable housing in a thriving community. HUD’s action today will make it more difficult for veterans, people with disabilities, low-income households, domestic abuse survivors, and rural communities to address systemic housing discrimination and leave them vulnerable during the nation’s fair and affordable housing crisis.  

You can read NFHA’s statement here, furthering outlining the harmful impacts of the proposed rule.

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