Trump Admin Investigates 'Discriminatory' Housing Policies, While Dismantling Fair Housing
In a head-scratching display of rhetorical gymnastics, the Trump administration launched an investigation into 'discriminatory' housing policies, as reported by Newsweek in 2018. This was the same administration that, just two years later, would significantly undermine the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, a core component of the 1968 Fair Housing Act designed precisely to prevent
and redress housing discrimination. That rule, put in place to address systemic inequities traced back to redlining and other racist practices, was famously called 'social engineering' by then-HUD Secretary Ben Carson. One might wonder if this 'investigation' was less about ensuring equity and more about performative outrage, carefully timed to distract from the administration's own policies that
systematically perpetuated housing segregation. It's the political equivalent of setting fire to a house and then diligently investigating every smoke alarm that fails to go off. The historical record, available at HUD.gov, shows a deliberate dismantling of regulatory tools meant to combat discrimination, making this 'investigation' less a righteous act and more a cynical photo-op. How many
'investigations' does it take to undo decades of civil rights progress?