Also, last week at a congressional hearing, HUD Secretary Julian Castro, widely touted as Hillary Clinton’s most likely vice-presidential running mate, was sharply questioned about AFFH by Utah ...

The AFFH rule, rooted in the 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA), requires HUD and recipients of federal housing funds to actively combat discrimination and promote fair housing. But its implementation ...

By eliminating the AFFH rule, Turner noted, HUD is dismantling bureaucratic red tape that he argued had restricted the ...

Thornton rightly notes that Dubuque is a template for the coming implementation of AFFH. The rule will make it easy for HUD to effectively annex other Iowa river-towns—like Clinton, Davenport ...

The GAO move comes after a federal judge halted the cancellation of fair housing funds, and followed a direct letter from U.S. senators.

The AFFH mandate had mainly been dead letter law since George Romney, President Richard Nixon’s HUD secretary from 1969 to 1973, tried and failed to create a program that sought to deny federal ...

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner said he would terminate the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule on Wednesday, repealing the law which was ...

AFFH, which was originally introduced by the ... in a protest outside U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images ...

HUD Secretary Scott Turner has also moved to transform his department. This included the elimination of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule that was a staple of the Biden ...

HUD has replaced all the complications of the "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" rule with a simple requirement: a locality’s "own certification" that is complying with fair housing law.