Trump Administration Backs off Mandate Addressing Housing Segregation and Discrimination
Abstract
In 2021, Boston began requiring real estate developers to consider how their projects could hurt residents historically discriminated against in housing and take steps to reduce those impacts. In creating its zoning ordinance, Boston relied on an underused mandate in the 1968 Fair Housing Act — one that the Obama administration put teeth into for the first time in decades.
External Links
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/business/housing-discrimination-fair-housing-trump/index.html
Source Publication
CNN
Repository Citation
Nathaniel Meyersohn & Brandon Weiss,
Trump Administration Backs off Mandate Addressing Housing Segregation and Discrimination,
CNN
(2025).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/674