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AG Nessel Sends Letter to HUD Opposing Fair Housing Rule Change

"Interim Final Rule Walks Back Requirement to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing" 

*LANSING – *Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in sending a comment [ [link removed] ] letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), opposing its interim final rule that walks back HUD’s duty to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH).  

“The core mission of the Department of Housing and Urban Development is to ensure fair, inclusive, and equitable housing, but this interim final rule undermines years of progress in strengthening civil rights protections,” Nessel said. “Michigan residents deserve strong, enforceable safeguards against discrimination, and I stand with my colleagues in calling on HUD to uphold its commitment to promote fair housing.” 

Under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), HUD is statutorily required to administer programs that prevent discrimination in home sales or rentals and affirmatively further fair housing (otherwise known as the AFFH Mandate), which includes combatting the persistence of segregation in housing and its harmful effects. In 2021, HUD issued a rule requiring that all grantees certify their AFFH compliance prior to receiving any federal funding. HUD’s new interim final rule walks back this requirement, replaces robust rules with a weak AFFH certification process, and seeks to dismantle HUD’s prior AFFH rulemaking efforts.  

In their letter, the attorneys general argue that the new interim final rule violates the charge of the FHA and the AFFH Mandate, as it does not require grantees to meaningfully evaluate whether their actions will reduce segregation and promote integration, nor does it require any specific fair housing planning processes. Instead, it undermines efforts to promote fair housing and ignores HUD’s statutory requirement to affirmatively further fair housing. According to the attorneys general, the proposed rule lacks any factual basis for its drastic policy change and practically depletes HUD’s oversight to identify and address barriers to fair housing.  

Joining Attorney General Nessel in submitting the comment letter were the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Connecticut, the District of Colombia, Hawai‘i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

 

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