The Trump administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is reportedly preparing to close several housing discrimination and environmental pollution cases, including some that have been under investigation for years and involve complaints from Black communities and other communities of color.
According to ProPublica, the allegations suggest that state and local governments in regions from the South to the Midwest may have disproportionately placed industrial facilities or low-income housing in minority neighborhoods, while steering similar developments away from predominantly white areas.
Furthermore, a HUD staffer familiar with these investigations told the outlet that in at least four of the seven investigations, they believe that civil rights violations have occurred.
Four additional HUD staffers told ProPublica that there is no precedent for abandoning civil rights investigations wherein it has been established that there have likely been civil rights violations visited on vulnerable populations. The staffers all spoke to the outlet anonymously out of fear of retaliation from the Trump administration.
According to one staffer, “No administration previously has so aggressively rolled back the basic protections that help people who are being harmed in their community. The civil rights protections that HUD enforces are intended to protect the most vulnerable people in society.”
Source: Trump-Era HUD Moves To Close Civil Rights Probes Into Housing Complaints From Black Communities
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