The federal official told a group of bank supervisors that the move, which Democrats oppose and the industry has mixed views on, will give them more autonomy.

In an effort to protect renters from rising residential rental prices, antitrust enforcers at the federal and state level ...

"Moreover, it merely requires grantees to certify that they will affirmatively further fair housing and does not mention whether HUD will provide municipalities with technical assistance, data, or ...

But the new rule “revises HUD’s regulation governing the Fair Housing Act’s mandate that the secretary administer HUD’s program and activities in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair ...

The Office of Management and Budget submitted a discretionary spending request to the Senate Committee on Appropriations ...

The Trump administration has both halted enforcement of the Equal Access Rule and proposed unspecified revisions to the ...

In recent months, HUD has been targeting the Obama-era Equal Access Rule that expanded protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Also in the bull’s-eye are fair-housing ...

In the crosshairs is an intense focus on transgender people, as HUD retreats from long-established fair-housing protections by closing their discrimination complaints and, more broadly ...

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) In the crosshairs is an intense focus on transgender people, as HUD retreats from long-established fair-housing protections by closing their discrimination complaints and ...

In the crosshairs is an intense focus on transgender people, as HUD retreats from long-established fair-housing protections by closing their discrimination complaints and, more broadly ...