Fair Housing ‘Letdown’ Triggers Frustration With Biden

By Katy O'Donnell, Politico.com

Civil rights and housing advocates are angry with the White House over delays in finalizing a long-promised fair housing rule — but are divided over whether to publicly pressure the administration as the election nears.

Three years and eight months after President Joe Biden directed his administration to adopt a sweeping plan to tackle housing discrimination, the keystone regulation of that initiative, the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, is stalled. Some advocates suspect election-year-politics is thwarting the effort because then-President Donald Trump used the issue to pillory Democrats for trying to “abolish the suburbs” in the heat of the 2020 campaign.

“I think it’s very much a political calculation, which disappoints me,” said Noelle Porter, director of government affairs at the National Housing Law Project, who has discussed the issue with the White House.

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