Informed administration officials It will select Congressional staff on Wednesday about the new proposal, which will replace a rule that requires local governments to proactively follow patterns of poverty and segregation with a 92-question checklist to gain access to federal housing funds. Critics denounced the plan as expensive and too complicated.
The new rule will use a much lower bar, essentially relying on local governments to self-certify that they are “promoting fair housing.”
The public will not have an opportunity to comment on the new rule, which will be considered “final”. HUD and the Office of Administration and Budget decided to use a waiver under a provision of the Administrative Procedure Act that exempts grant-related rules from notification and comment requirements.
“Secretary Carson is breaking Obama’s 2015 AFFH rule, as this is the best way to preserve community and neighborhood choice,” HUD spokesman Brad Bishop told POLITICO. “Washington is never attuned to the needs of the American people like those of the local level.”
The White House declined to comment.
Trump tweeted about the rule late last month.
“At the request of many great suburban Americans, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once-prosperous suburban areas,” he wrote on Twitter on June 30. “The corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them much worse. It’s not fair to the owners, I can FINISH!
