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The bill trades modest near-term savings, reduced compliance burdens, and avoidance of centralized sensitive race-mapping data for weakened federal tools, oversight, and data needed to identify, target, and prevent housing discrimination and concentrated poverty—disproportionately harming low-income and minority renters and reducing transparency and evidence-based policy capacity.
Taxpayers and federal agencies: avoid near-term spending by not building or maintaining specialized geospatial racial-disparity and housing-access databases and by reducing some HUD administrative requirements.
HUD grantees, state and local governments: face reduced regulatory and compliance burdens from fewer federal data/reporting requirements, which may allow faster implementation and more administrative flexibility.
Racial and ethnic communities: avoid centralization of sensitive geospatial race/disparity data in federal systems, lowering some risks of government-held data misuse or privacy harms.
Renters, low-income households, and racial-ethnic minorities: lose or see weakened federal protections and enforcement tools aimed at combating housing discrimination and segregation, increasing the risk of discriminatory housing outcomes.
State and local governments and planners: lose federal guidance, requirements, and centralized mapping tools used to identify segregation and housing disparities, undermining coordinated planning to reduce concentrated poverty.
Communities experiencing racial and housing inequities (low-income and minority neighborhoods): may receive less effective, less-targeted federal assistance because agencies cannot map or analyze disparity hotspots.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Introduced March 27, 2025 by Mike Lee · Last progress March 27, 2025
Invalidates several prior HUD actions implementing the "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" (AFFH) requirements, bars any federal funds from supporting geospatial databases that map community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing, and directs HUD to consult with State, local, and public housing agency officials to prepare consensus-based recommendations consistent with Supreme Court rulings to further the Fair Housing Act. The measure requires HUD to publish a draft report for public comment and a final report online, with specific consultation and transparency procedures and deadlines for those reports.