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07/29/2020
HUD Revokes Obama-era Rule Designed to Diversify the Suburbs
The new rule allows jurisdictions to ignore desegregation policies
On July 29, 2020, the Trump administration said it is revoking an Obama-era housing regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs, a move that fair housing advocates have decried as an election-year stunt designed to manipulate the fears of white voters.
In a tweet addressed to “The Suburban Housewives of America,” President Donald Trump made his intended audience clear. “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream,” he said. "I will preserve it, and make it even better!”
Trump has repeatedly characterized the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)regulation as an existential threat to the suburban way of life that will bring about more crime and lower home prices.
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