White House Hesitates To Bring Back Fair Housing Rule [Video]

WASHINGTON — The White House is hesitating to finalize a government policy meant to reduce housing segregation out of fear it would cause a conservative backlash, according to a senior official.

The Biden administration’s new proposal is a redo of a fair housing rule that Donald Trump rescinded in 2020. He’d claimed it would “destroy” the suburbs, in a signature display of the white identity politics that fueled his political rise.

In one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden issued a memorandum ordering the Department of Housing and Urban Development to bring back the fair housing rule as a way to make up for decades of federal housing policies responsible for boosting racial segregation.

The department first rolled out the revamped housing regulation last February as part of a formal rulemaking process that invites comments from the public. But because the White House is being “chickenshit,” a senior HUD official with knowledge of the process told HuffPost, the new …