Trump moves to roll back Obama housing desegregation rule

The Trump administration is planning to ease fair housing regulations for local governments throughout the country, the latest effort to scale back sweeping Obama-era rules meant to crack down on segregation.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development this week will propose a rule that would redefine the way jurisdictions are required to promote fair housing and scrap a key assessment tool used to map racial segregation under the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.

The 2015 rule — which the Obama administration introduced as a way to beef up enforcement of the landmark Fair Housing Act of 1968 — required local governments to track patterns of poverty and segregation with a checklist of 92 questions in order to gain access to federal housing funds.

The regulation as it stands is “too prescriptive in outcomes for jurisdictions,” HUD will say in the new rule, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by POLITICO.

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