May 2, 2025
Secretary Scott Turner
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20410
Re: Docket No. FR–6519–I–01; Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions
Dear Secretary Turner:
Imagine a society in which every child and every person can live in a neighborhood with ample affordable and accessible housing, fresh air, clean water, good public transportation, living wage jobs, quality healthcare, healthy foods, and affordable credit. That is what affirmatively furthering fair housing means. However, the Trump administration has backed away from the federal government’s duty to affirmatively further fair housing and taken away critical tools that states and localities need and requested to address the nation’s fair and affordable housing crisis and advance the American Dream of having a safe, stable place to call home.
The National Fair Housing Alliance® (NFHA™)1 and the undersigned advocacy organizations submit this comment in opposition to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2025 Interim Final Rule titled, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions (2025 AFFH IFR).2 The 2025 AFFH IFR purports to implement the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) provision of the Fair Housing Act and rescinds the 2021 Interim Final Rule (2021 AFFH IFR). For the reasons described below, we strongly urge HUD to immediately withdraw the 2025 AFFH IFR and reinstate the 2021 AFFH IFR:
1. People in America Are in the Middle of a Fair and Affordable Housing Crisis
2. HUD’s 2025 AFFH IFR Will Only Worsen the Fair and Affordable Housing Crisis
- The National Fair Housing Alliance® (NFHA™) leads the fair housing movement. NFHA works to eliminate housing discrimination and ensure equitable housing opportunities for all people and communities through its education and outreach, member services, public policy, advocacy, housing and community development, tech equity, enforcement, and consulting and compliance programs.
- HUD, Interim Final Rule, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions, 90 Fed. Reg. 11020 (March 3, 2025), https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/03/2025-03360/affi rmatively-furthering-fair-housing-revisions.
