For 57 years, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) has used a landmark civil rights law to bring lawsuits against discriminatory lenders, landlords and realtors, with the goal of fighting residential segregation.
That work has largely ground to a halt since Donald Trump returned to the White House, two attorneys in the department’s anti-discrimination division said in interviews, as well as a whistleblower report sent to Congress and a lawsuit filed this week.
