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  1. Supercharged inequality: rich investors stifle budget. The current housing crisis isn’t a market failure—it’s the system working exactly as intended for those at the top. While wealthy investors use tax concessions like negative gearing to treat shelter as a high-yield asset, millions of people are being locked out of the basic right to a home. We need a fundamental shift that prioritizes people over portfolios and ends the policies that supercharge inequality.

    ​#housingjustice #auspol #wealthgap #fairhousing

    au.finance.yahoo.com/news/supe

  2. In interviews, half a dozen current & former employees of #HUD’s #FairHousing office said that the #Trump political appointees had made it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs, which involve investigating & prosecuting landlords, real estate agents, lenders & others who discriminate based on race, religion, gender, family status or disability.

    #law #heterosexism #racism #ableism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

  3. The emails are among dozens of pages of internal communications, memos and other documents reviewed by The New York Times that show efforts by the #Trump administration to limit enforcement of the #FairHousing Act, the landmark #CivilRights law that has prohibited #discrimination in housing for nearly six decades.

    #law #heterosexism #racism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

  4. In one email, a #Trump appointee at the Department of Housing & Urban Development [#HUD] described decades of #housing #discrimination cases as “artificial, arbitrary & unnecessary.”

    In another, a career supervisor in the department’s Office of #FairHousing & #EqualOpportunity [#FHEO] objected to lawyers being reassigned to other offices; the supervisor was fired 6 days later for *insubordination*.

    #law #heterosexism #racism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

  5. Federal Housing Agency Adopts English-Only Policy

    HUD’s deputy secretary says the agency will speak in “one language” to fulfill its mission to help those in need.

    murica.website/2025/08/federal

  6. #FairHousing law used to protect #transgender ed people. Trump has reversed this (he's pretty much reversed all fair housing law.) This person had their door kicked in, their king sized bed removed, their #BirthCertificate and #SocialSecurityCard stolen among other important things.

    In battle against transgender rights, #Trump targets #HUD’s #housing policies - ABC News
    abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireSt

  7. The Alameda City Attorney’s Office is presenting the fifth annual Alameda Fair Housing Workshop on Thursday, April 17, 9 a.m. to noon, at City Hall. Tenants, property owners, and property managers are encouraged to attend the free workshop. alamedapost.com/news/city-atto

    #alameda #AlamedaCityAttorney #CityOfAlameda #FairHousing #housing

  8. Lending #discrimination files could feature #credit reports & #bank statements. The names of #witnesses who offered information — in some cases anonymously — about landlords accused of discrimination are among the files as well.

    #HUD enforces numerous #CivilRights laws, including the #FairHousing Act & aspects of the #ViolenceAgainstWomen Act & the #AmericansWithDisabilities Act.

    #law #InfoSec #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #privacy #HEMS

  9. The grp compiled 2 lists, “#DEI Grants to Eliminate” & “DEI 10 Contracts to Eliminate,” detailing ~$380M from #NASA, #Labor Dpt, #Defense & #HHS. Most contracts were for #DEITraining, #ProfessionalDevelopment or workplace surveys. #Grants to cancel included $22.2M “#Nursing Workforce Diversity” program at #Health Resources & Services, to encourage nursing careers for minorities, & $8.35M “#FairHousing” initiative to promote racial #desegregation, incl’g by ending race based neighbor #harassment.

  10. Giving tax breaks to foreign investors in the Australian property market is absolute madness! It’s driving up prices and locking locals out. This has to change—now! #HousingCrisis #AusPol #FairHousing

    youtube.com/watch?v=813zF4eLKE4

  11. 1970: New Jersey's Supreme Court strikes down "municipal land-use regulation-the use of the zoning power to advance the parochial interests of the municipality at the expense of the surrounding region and to establish and perpetuate social and economic segregation" #fairhousing #zoning #segregation #newjersey #mtlaurel #history nytimes.com/1975/03/25/archive

  12. New article on the Tosa case, with an angle on fair housing, the smart planning law, & accountability.

    BTW: there's a hearing for the reconsideration motion in two weeks. Plz tailgate.

    tinyurl.com/ecevtcfa

    #TosaTussle #FairHousing

  13. This is a good documentary about how #racist housing policies in the past continue to effect us today.
    youtube.com/watch?v=YvY3Ok6Ypb

    The current laws about critical race theory and laws prohibiting teachings that make people uncomfortable is because the effects of those US policies are so blatant.

    #FairHousing was the hill that my father fought for in his lifetime. Unfortunately, many people still believe that their life and their wealth will be adversely affected if they live near black people.

  14. 👀 the stuff in this #Columbus "upcoming housing initiatives" page: housingforallcbus.com/housing-

    - ADU program w/ 15-year affordability covenant
    - registry of vacant + foreclosed properties, fees by duration
    - registry of rentals
    - 180-day notice for rent increases
    - eviction court counsel

    #FairHousing #urbanism

  15. Washington's State Senate also passed Opportunity to Purchase for Manufactured Home Parks by a 2/3s majority. It now needs House approval--if passed it will significantly help ROCs (resident owned communities) grow in Washington #cooperatives #fairhousing