Trump’s Fair Housing Restoration – WSJ
The Trump Administration on Thursday rolled back an Obama regulation that federalized local zoning and land-use policies. This deserves more explanation than it’s getting because critics are distorting what it means.
The 1968 Fair Housing Act requires recipients of federal block grants to certify that they “affirmatively further fair housing.” In 1996 the Clinton Administration issued 170 pages of guidance interpreting those four words, and lawsuits proliferated.
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