Sec. 2. Findings
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The Congress finds the following: The current Administration has taken several steps that seriously undermine the American people’s fair housing protections. On February 10, 2025, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development announced that he would halt all current and future enforcement of the Departments’s Equal Access Rule that protect persons who are experiencing homelessness from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity while residing in shelters and while receiving homeless services.
On February 11, 2025, Secretary Scott Turner stated in an interview regarding the halting of Equal Access Rule enforcement that, We want to uphold, first, what the bible says—that there’s male and female and also stated that Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Office of Management and Budget are going after AFFH . On February 12, 2025, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development submitted an interim final rule about affirmatively furthering fair housing to the Office of Management and Budget for review.
On February 12, 2025, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development submitted a proposed Equal Access Rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review. On February 14, 2025, Bloomberg Law reported that the Trump Administration plans to eliminate 50 percent of the staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. On February 26, 2025, ProPublica reported that the United States DOGE Service (commonly referred to as the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE ) was given access to confidential fair housing discrimination complaints.
On February 26, 2025, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development announced the rescission of the rule to affirmatively further fair housing and announced the Department will now rely on localities to self-certify that they comply with the law, even if the locality has not shown to the Department that it has affirmatively furthered fair housing, through an interim final rule issued on March 3, 2025, entitled Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions . On February 25, 2025, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, at the direction of the United States DOGE Service (commonly referred to as the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE ), canceled 78 Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants that private nonprofit fair housing organizations use to investigate and root out illegal housing discrimination.
On March 13, 2025, Fair Housing Initiatives Program grantees filed a class action lawsuit in a United States District Court. On March 25, 2025, the United States District Court in the District of Massachusetts granted a temporary restraining order directing the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to reinstate the 78 Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants.