AGS opposes Hud’s plan to reverse fair housing marketing rules

“The Trump administration is working on reversing critical honest housing regulations that prohibit discrimination – protection in the 70s to combat the treacherous persistence of separate neighborhoods – protection that are essential today to ensure that housing opportunities remain accessible for disadvantaged communities,” Bonta said in a statement.

“The national housing crisis is driven by a shortage of housing stock and unprecedentedness that influences the communities of color disproportionately. Nowadays I insist on the administration to look closely at the mandate they have inherited in the Fair Housing Act and to understand that it is a broader scala of buyers that are available for affordable home”

CHOOP REGULATIONS REQUIRE OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS OF HUD-Geschesonized homes use marketing and outreach strategies that reach groups that are protected under the fair housing act-inclusive that based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including gender and sexual orientation), family status and handicap.

These regulations are designed to prevent home providers from only advertising for certain population, which has contributed to the continuation of racially separate neighborhoods.

According to the rules, landlords are not obliged to select tenants from a specific demography, they are forbidden to use other advertising methods, but they must demonstrate efforts to ensure that Outreach is included, especially in areas with a highly revealed groups of protected groups, Bonta said.

The letter was also led by the attorney general of California, Maryland and New York. It was also signed by AGs from Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Columpia.

The AGS said that the proposed withdrawal device contradicts HUD’s obligations under the Fair Housing Act to confirm affirmative fair homes.

They criticized the lack of a replacement rule, a non -contamination how HUD would prevent illegal marketing practices in the absence of CHOOP regulations, and the absence of legal or empirically healthy justification for reversing five decades of policy.

In 2023, federal and government agencies reported Record numbers From complaints of honest housing – a trend that has existed in recent years, the AGs added.