Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
Source: New York Times
Sept. 22, 2025 Updated 9:58 a.m. ET
In one email, a Trump appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development described decades of housing discrimination cases as “artificial, arbitrary and unnecessary.”
In another, a career supervisor in the department’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity objected to lawyers being reassigned to other offices; the supervisor was fired six days later for insubordination.
In a third, the office’s director of enforcement warned that Trump appointees were using gag orders and intimidation to block discrimination cases from moving forward. The urgent message was sent to a U.S. senator, who is referring it to the department’s acting inspector general for investigation..
The emails are among dozens of pages of internal communications, memos and other documents reviewed by The New York Times that show efforts by the Trump administration to limit enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, the landmark civil rights law that has prohibited discrimination in housing for nearly six decades.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/realestate/trump-fair-housing-laws.html
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This definitely will be helpful for dealing with the "Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".
But of course 45 is the master at violating the Fair Housing Act, so he can advise on how to do it.
Federal Document Proves Donald Trump Practiced Housing Discrimination in New York City
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Uncle Sam went after the Trump apartment rentals back in the 1960s and early 70s. I think Chump himself was just out of school and helping his dad run the Long Island business. Also Fred built apartments in Virginia with FHA money and then failed to rent to low-income (black) families. They were taken to court and some fines assessed. I don't remember the details, but David Cay Johnston and other reporters have investigated those activities.
When Chump used his dad's money to build and manage hotels in Manhattan, one of his main objectives was to avoid all the scrutiny of renting to what he considered to be undesirable tenants. The racism has been there all along in this family.
