Restoring Fair Housing Protections Eliminated by Trump Act of 2025

House Votes

This bill aims to restore and strengthen fair housing protections. It sets the housing department’s mission to build inclusive communities and ensure quality, affordable homes for all, free from discrimination. It also tells the department to repeal a recent rule and replace it within 90 days with a stronger standard for “affirmatively furthering fair housing,” meaning taking real steps to reduce segregation and expand access to opportunity across all programs and activities .

The bill also tackles discrimination that can happen online. Within 180 days, the department must review five years of complaints tied to digital platforms and artificial intelligence—like ad targeting, tenant screening, mortgage underwriting, dynamic pricing, and real estate listings—and explain trends and planned fixes. It creates a public, quarterly-updated database of fair housing complaints that shows totals by protected class and state; includes complaints tied to the Violence Against Women Act; identifies whether complainants were homeless, tenants, or applicants; tracks retaliation and evictions; and reports case status, outcomes, and referrals to state, local, and federal agencies. This database covers many types of federally backed or assisted housing, including public housing, vouchers, mortgages insured by federal programs, veteran housing programs, low‑income housing tax credit properties, and more .

• Who is affected: renters, homebuyers, people using federal housing programs, and communities; plus housing agencies and landlords that use digital tools .
• What changes: clear mission for the housing department; stronger fair housing rule; review of AI/digital discrimination; new public complaint database .
• When: new fair housing rule within 90 days; AI/digital complaint report within 180 days; database updated every quarter .