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119-hr-3086119th CongressWALLET

Restoring Fair Housing Protections Eliminated by Trump Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]

Introduced

Summary

Restore a robust Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing duty to reverse recent rollbacks and strengthen HUD’s role in reducing segregation, expanding access to opportunity, and improving transparency across federal housing programs. The bill would rewrite HUD’s AFFH rules, require a review of tech-driven discrimination, and publish complaint data publicly.

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  • Families and communities: Would require HUD, within 90 days, to repeal the interim AFFH rule and issue a rule defining “affirmatively further fair housing” to include meaningful actions that address segregation, housing disparities, and transforming racially or ethnically concentrated areas of poverty.
  • People facing digital discrimination: Would require HUD to report to Congress within 180 days on Fair Housing Act complaints from the prior five years that alleged discrimination involving online platforms or artificial intelligence and to analyze trends, risks, and legal gaps.
  • Transparency and enforcement partners: Would create a publicly available database updated quarterly showing totals by protected class, VAWA-related counts, housing-type and state breakdowns, retaliation and eviction statistics, complaint status and outcomes, referrals, and related enforcement information, and it defines which federal housing programs are covered.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

More housing programs covered for complaints

If enacted, HUD would treat discrimination complaints from many more federally assisted homes as covered cases. Examples include public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers and project-based Section 8, Section 202 and 811, VA-assisted housing, rural housing, and low-income tax credit units. It would also cover loans tied to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. For Violence Against Women Act issues, the bill would use VAWA’s own covered housing list.

Public tracker for fair housing complaints

HUD would post a public database and update it every quarter. It would show counts and percentages of Fair Housing Act complaints by protected group and by state. It would track Violence Against Women Act issues, retaliation and eviction claims, and complaints from people who are homeless, tenants, and applicants. It would show complaint status, outcomes, and referrals to the Attorney General, while protecting privacy.

Stronger HUD fair housing mission and rules

The bill would restore HUD’s fair housing focus and undo a recent rule. Within 90 days, HUD would have to repeal the March 3, 2025 “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions” interim rule. HUD would also have to issue a new rule that defines the duty to affirmatively further fair housing and requires meaningful actions to reduce segregation and expand access to opportunity. The duty would apply across all HUD housing and community programs.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]

CA • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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