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Investigations into the fair housing practices of two US cities directly contradict race-neutral guidance from the Supreme Court. Cities must continue this work. Thomas Silverstein, President and Executive Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council January 30, 2026 Opinion in Shelterforce Nearly 40 years ago, a federal appeals court issued a landmark civil … [Read more...] about HUD Scolds Boston and Minneapolis for Doing What It Says It Wants Done

The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on “disparate impact,” which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes. By Julian Mark and Laura Meckler for the Washington Post, Updated June 1, 2025 President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April declaring the decades-old legal principle known as disparate … [Read more...] about Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet

Link to the Slate.com article in the Jurisprudence Section By Thomas Silverstein, PRRAC May 04, 2025 Trump’s executive order calls for the repeal of agencies’ disparate impact regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images and Central Press/Getty Images. When large … [Read more...] about Trump Just Issued an Executive Order Aimed at Decimating the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Advocates behind the measure on the city’s May 6 special election ballot say it’s common for landlords to discriminate against Section 8 housing voucher users Eddie Velazquez for PrismReports.org Link to the original article Landlords across 26 states in the U.S. are legally able to discriminate against tenants based on the source of their rental income, a practice that … [Read more...] about Ballot measure seeks to end discrimination based on source of rental income in Lincoln, Nebraska

Link to the original Shelterforce article The president's executive orders threaten the funding of a wide range of housing programs in the U.S. Over a dozen federal grantees told us how they've been affected, and how they're planning for an uncertain future. February 2, 2025 by Miriam Axel-Lute and Lara Heard for Shelterforce The last week of January was “a week of panic” … [Read more...] about What Trump’s DEI Orders Could Mean for Housing