Next City | Bloomberg
Since 1968, when the passage of the Fair Housing Act banned discrimination in renting, mortgage lending and home sales, the bulk of enforcement duties have been outsourced to private organizations, mostly nonprofits. Private organizations processed 75% of Fair Housing complaints in 2023, according to the National Fair Housing Alliance. But those agencies are facing an existential threat after many of them received a Feb. 27 letter from HUD, notifying them that at the direction of the president and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), their Fair Housing grants were being canceled, “because it no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities,” according to one letter viewed by Next City/Shelterforce.
