# 2025-00981: HUD Quietly Abandons Fair Housing Rule After Two Years

2025-00981, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing; Withdrawal, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-16, effective 2025-01-16; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00981
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00981
- Title: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing; Withdrawal
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-16
- Effective: 2025-01-16
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

HUD Quietly Abandons Fair Housing Rule After Two Years

## Summary

HUD has decided to stop moving forward with a rule called "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" that was proposed in 2023. This means communities and housing programs won’t have new federal requirements for fair housing planning or enforcement right now. The withdrawal takes effect January 16, 2025, and no new costs or deadlines come from this change at this time.

## Abstract

This document informs the public that HUD has determined not to pursue the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2023, entitled "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing". HUD will proceed to formally withdraw the rule from HUD's upcoming Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.

## Effects PRIA read

- AFFH proposal withdrawn — no new requirements: benefit, low. HUD has withdrawn the proposed "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" rule that was published February 9, 2023, and HUD does not intend to issue a final rule on that proposal. The withdrawal takes effect January 16, 2025, so communities and housing programs will not face new federal fair-housing p…
- No immediate costs or deadlines from withdrawal: benefit, low. HUD states the withdrawal creates no new costs or deadlines at this time and will remove the proposal from its Spring 2025 Unified Agenda. The withdrawal is effective January 16, 2025.

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## Sources
- [2025-00981 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/16/2025-00981/affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-withdrawal)
- [2025-00981 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-16/pdf/2025-00981.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00981 (as of 2026-06-11).