Sponsor
Paul Gosar
Representative · R-AZ
Representative · R-AZ
The bill trades reduced federal data collection and regulatory burdens — saving federal costs and protecting some privacy/local autonomy — for weaker federal oversight, less data and enforcement capacity to detect and remedy housing segregation, and delays or gaps in tools that help low‑income and minority renters.
Federal taxpayers and agencies avoid the cost of creating and operating a new federal racial‑disparities geospatial database, reducing federal spending.
Local governments and some developers face fewer planning and regulatory requirements and HUD will spend less staff time enforcing the rescinded rules, lowering administrative and compliance burdens.
Prevents federal collection or aggregation of sensitive race‑and‑housing geospatial data, reducing risks of misuse and protecting privacy for residents whose data might otherwise be compiled.
Communities of color and low‑income renters lose federal tools aimed at identifying and remedying segregation and unequal housing access, reducing federal capacity to advance fair housing outcomes.
Weakens federal enforcement and civil‑rights monitoring by removing spatial data and rescinding planning requirements, making it harder to detect and address discriminatory patterns in housing and lending.
Consultation, consensus requirements, and long comment periods can delay urgent fair‑housing actions for up to a year, slowing remedies for people facing housing discrimination or lack of access.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Nullifies specified HUD AFFH rules and notices, bans federal funding for geospatial racial/housing-disparity databases, and directs HUD to consult with state/local officials to produce consensus recommendations.
Official title: To nullify certain regulations and notices of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 26, 2025 by Paul Gosar · Last progress February 26, 2025
Repeals prior HUD rules and notices implementing the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) framework, bars federal agencies from creating or funding any geospatial database that maps racial or housing-access disparities, and directs HUD to consult with state, local, and public housing officials to produce consensus recommendations (with a draft and final report and a public comment period) on ways to advance the Fair Housing Act consistent with Supreme Court decisions. The bill focuses on removing specific federal AFFH regulatory tools and limiting use of federal funds for mapping tools, while requiring a consultative, nonbinding set of recommendations from HUD within a year.