The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is eliminating an Obama-era rule that became a lightning rod during the 2020 election.

Secretary Scott Turner said he would terminate the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule on Wednesday, repealing ...

The Trump administration rescinded the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which mandated that localities commission extensive analyses to certify that new housing developments do not ...

It is the end of the road for another Biden-era rule, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, ...

WASHINGTON — Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner announced the elimination Wednesday of a costly Obama ...

The Biden administration's DEI policies were so extensive that they included HUD forcing local communities to give up their zoning rules. Trump just shut it down.

Trump had weaponized an earlier version of the rule during the 2020 campaign, declaring that Democrats wanted to “abolish the suburbs.” ...

HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced ... federal agencies and recipients of federal housing funds “affirmatively further fair housing,” according to the department. The Obama-era 2015 rule ...

The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule had conditioned millions of dollars’ worth of community development block grants from HUD on the completion of lengthy demographic analyses.

Had the 2021 rule been finalized, HUD would have been required ... a locality’s self-certification that it is affirmatively furthering fair housing in accordance with the 1968 Fair Housing ...