HUD secretary terminates AFFH rule to cut red tape

With the decision to terminate a 2021 interim final rule implementing key provisions of the Fair Housing Act, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is following a similar policy path taken during the first Trump administration. HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced the agency will attempt to cut “costly red tape” by stopping enforcement of the 2021 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, calling it a “zoning tax” imposed on localities.