A group of whistleblowers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) alleges that the agency is abdicating its duty to enforce federal civil rights and fair housing laws.
On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) sent a letter to Brian Harrison, the acting inspector general for HUD, urging him to investigate the allegations.
“Right now, if you’re a mom protecting your kids from living with an abusive father, or if you’re getting denied a mortgage because of the color of your skin, you have civil rights protection under U.S. law,” Warren said in a video posted to X on Monday.
She continued: “But the Trump administration has been systematically destroying these federal protections for renters and homeowners, and now new internal documents shared with my office from whistleblowers inside the Department of Housing and Urban Development show the extent of the Trump administration’s attack on civil rights and show how the administration appears to be ignoring the law.”
Warren’s letter to Harrison quotes extensively from a “Letter by Named and Anonymous OFH [Office of Fair Housing] Attorneys” sent to the senator.
HUD leadership, they wrote, has “placed the Department on an unalterable course towards violating its statutory and regulatory obligations to safeguard the equal distribution of federal funds, to combat housing discrimination in the public and private sectors, and to protect the lives of countless survivors of domestic violence.”
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