“The White House plans to eliminate a sweeping Obama-era fair housing regulation on Thursday and replace it with a much weaker rule amid an effort by President Donald Trump to paint rival Joe Biden as a danger to the suburbs” Politico reported Wednesday.
“A handful of White House officials led the effort to craft a new rule over objections from both within the White House and at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a person familiar with the matter. HUD had already released its own 84-page proposal to overhaul the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule in January, the culmination of more than a year of work.”
“Trump has hinted at the plan in recent weeks, casting the Obama rule as ‘devastating’ for the suburbs. ‘The suburb destruction will end with us,’ he said in a speech last week. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has pledged to restore the original version of the 2015 rule, which HUD suspended in 2018 when it drafted the revision.”