Restoring Fair Housing Protections Eliminated by Trump Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would restore and expand HUD's affirmative fair housing mission by requiring proactive steps to overcome segregation and by creating new data and reporting rules to catch discrimination, including harms caused by digital tools and artificial intelligence.
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- Families and renters would see a broader set of HUD-assisted homes covered by fair housing duties. The bill lists many programs by name, including section 202 elderly housing, section 811 disability housing, HOME Investment Partnerships, section 8 vouchers, public housing, McKinney-Vento homelessness programs, and rural housing programs.
- Housing providers and program participants would face a strengthened definition of "affirmatively furthering fair housing" that goes beyond anti-discrimination. The bill would repeal a contested interim rule and require meaningful actions to address segregation, disparities in access to opportunity, and concentrated poverty.
- Technology platforms and enforcement officials would get new scrutiny and transparency. HUD would be required to review online complaints tied to advertising, tenant screening, mortgage underwriting, pricing, and listings, publish a quarterly complaints database disaggregated by protected class and program type, and provide state-by-state referral and resolution stats. The bill sets deadlines, including 90 days to replace AFFH rules and 180 days to report on online complaints.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More housing covered by HUD rules
If enacted, the bill would define a broad set of federally assisted housing as "covered housing" for Fair Housing Act complaints. That would let people who live in or applied for many HUD, VA, rural, and tax-credit projects bring complaints to HUD. Examples named include section 202 elderly housing, section 811 disability housing, public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers, project-based section 8, HOME, low-income housing tax credit projects, and VA homeless programs. The change would take effect upon enactment.
New HUD rule to further fair housing
If enacted, the bill would require HUD to repeal the March 3, 2025 interim AFFH rule and issue a new definition within 90 days. The new definition would require HUD and program participants to take meaningful actions beyond anti-discrimination steps to overcome segregation and disparities. It would emphasize transforming concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity and ensuring ongoing civil rights compliance across HUD programs.
Public HUD fair housing database
If enacted, the bill would require HUD to create a public database of fair housing complaints on its website. The database would be updated every quarter, subject to confidentiality rules. It would show complaint counts by protected class and by State, flag VAWA and homelessness-related complaints, and identify tenant and applicant complaints by type of covered housing applied for. It would also report complaint status, resolutions, retaliation and eviction allegations, and referrals or reasonable-cause charges.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
MA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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