The Trump administration is reincing a rapid housing policy as a retreat to the US Housing and Urban Development Department from long-founded forms-housing protection for the Hijra people.
In recent months, the HUD continues to notice the equivalent access to the Obama-era that extends the protection to include sexual attraction and gender identity. There are also investigations of fair-housing allegations in the bull’s eyes and federally funded homeless shelters.
Hanna Adams, a senior staff Attorney of the National Housing Law Project, said, “This administration wants to pretend to be the existence of Trans people.” “Everything they are doing is not compatible with HUD’s supposed mission to supply security nets for families who are fighting in this country.”
HUD says in a statement that it supports the Landmark Fair Housing Act that guarantees equal access to housing for all Americans, as well as call Trump’s executive order “biological truth to the federal government.”
Here is the key acceptance of how HUD is taking the war with Ezra rights.
The Fair Housing Act identifies sexuality as one of the seven protected classes for housing discrimination. However, it was not until the Obama administration founded equal access rules in 2002 until these protections were increased to sexual attitudes, gender identity and marital status.
In 20 2016, the rule was expanded to include Ezra people seeking assistance at the Federal Emergency shelters.
Four years later, a judgment of the Supreme Court of 2021 has proved that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and Hijra from employment discrimination. Under the administration of the Biden, Housing Advocates and HUDs explained in 2021 that LGBBTU+ people were also protected by the fair housing law as a broad confirmation.
Kim Johnson, a public policy manager of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, says that despite the less than 5% of the general public, the Hijra people gain the experience of homeless at high rates. The spirit of the Fair Housing Act is to protect everyone at risk of discrimination, he said, even if the text of the law clearly includes gender identity as a protected class.
Johnson said, “We really need to be sure that we are supporting what the law means and the truth is that the Hijra people are the most marginal people in this country,” Johnson said.
Since President Donald Trump appointed Scott Turner to lead HUD, the Fair Housing Office and equal opportunity office staff have directed all gender identity to the details of the discriminatory case, saying two HUD attors on condition of not being named for their jobs or facilities.
One said that the letters that were then closed in the absence of jurisdiction were issued.
HUD did not disclose how many cases were excluded. A National Fair Housing Alliance report identified at least five discriminatory allegations involved in gender identity in 2021, though the HUD has not yet specified how many cases are outstanding.
Equal access rules and changes in other guidances are still obsessed with ambiguity, what happens now depends on where a case is filed. In the Blue State, with the law of providing protection outside the federal law, the HUD LGBBTU+ discriminated against the tenants in the state-run offices, said HUD employees who spoke freely on the condition of anonymity.
The HUD Deputy General Counsel in the Biden Administration and the Special Consultant Sasha Samberg Champion for the civil rights of the National Fair Housing Alliance, “There is no public policy for discrimination in the housing market against the people. Because they are not Ezra.”
Community leaders say they are facing seemingly contradictory requirements in the new HUD agreement with non -profit that find permanent accommodation for the homeless and run shelters.
A section determines that non-profit can not promote “gender ideals” and at the same time another person needs to obey the anti-discrimination law, according to a copy given to the AP.
In Tennessee’s Memphis, a non -profit that provides urgent shelter for people is trying to increase power because of uncertainty.
Kayla Gore, executive director of my Systa’s house, said it could do it because it does not take Federal funds. However, other shelters are removing information from their websites about the service of LGBTU+ community, fear that if they do not do so, the federal fund will be taken away.
“People are confused,” said Gore. “They don’t know what to do because they want to protect their bottom line.”
Immediately after taking oath as a HUD Secretary in February, Turner announced that he was stopping applying equal access rules and filed a proposal to correct the policy quietly. HUD officials have refused to say what the proposed changes are.
In 2021, the first Trump administration failed to release the shelter from any obligation to the transgender people.
With Trump returning to the second term, his administration will feel more encouraged and fears that shelters will ban gender identity completely.
“Unfortunately, it is already making people of the weak more weakened,” said Attorney Seran G of Advocate for Trans Simity.
“Our security cannot be the Pingpong Ball that changes every four years.”
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