by Press | Apr 13, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge advanced a proposal Tuesday to reinstate the Department’s 2013 disparate impact rule, as well as an interim final rule that would reassert the federal government’s commitment to affirmatively...
by Press | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
To ensure affordable housing units can be built and expand opportunities to promote a thriving, inclusive community in the Gowanus neighborhood of New York City, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed an amicus brief today on behalf of three...
by Press | Dec 7, 2020 | Press Releases
(NEW YORK) – The city of New York is actively perpetuating segregation in violation of the Fair Housing Act, at points relying on the Trump Administration’s regressive 2020 Disparate Impact rule to justify its discriminatory policy, a proposed amicus brief filed...
by Press | Nov 18, 2020 | Press Releases
(Hartford, Conn.) – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and multiple of its grantees and contractors failed to provide relocating families with the mobility counseling they were entitled to, imposed relocation deadlines that were highly...
by Press | Oct 22, 2020 | Press Releases
(Hartford, Conn.) – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) new disparate impact rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act, and would make it virtually impossible for victims of discrimination to prevail when they challenge...
