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The
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will publish
the change in a notice to be published in the Federal Register
on Friday, the newspaper reported.
The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The change does not end the rule, a condition of receiving
billions of dollars in grants and housing aid, but is intended
to allow time for more help for communities that have had
trouble completing the analyses and solutions, HUD said in a
statement to the Times.
Following a review of its rules and regulations and requests for
public comment, HUD said: "What we heard convinced us that the
Assessment of Fair Housing tool for local governments wasn’t
working well," the newspaper reported.
The notice tells cities working on plans called for under the
2015 rule that they will not have to submit them, and HUD said
it will stop reviewing plans that have already been filed,
according to the Times.
Critics of the move say it would effectively halt the first
major effort in decades to address racial inequality in housing,
the Times reported.
The move would be the latest in a series by the Republican Trump
administration to roll back or delay initiatives undertaken
during the administration of Trump's Democratic predecessor,
President Barack Obama.
(Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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