Washington, D.C. Sept. 22, 2025 – Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, wrote a letter to Brian Harrison, the Acting Inspector General for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), calling for an independent investigation into troubling allegations from HUD whistleblowers. The claims, which are supported by internal HUD documents, detail how the Trump Administration appears to be violating the law and failing to enforce federal civil rights and fair housing laws. The documents were provided to Ranking Member Warren by a group of whistleblowers who are attorneys in the HUD General Counsel’s Office of Fair Housing (OFH) and the HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO).
“The documents received by my office suggest that HUD leadership has rescinded referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and dropped ‘major investigations and cases concerning alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where the agency already found civil rights violations,’” wrote the Ranking Member.
These documents also describe that “HUD leadership informed existing OFH staff that ‘fair housing was ‘not a priority’ of the administration, that less civil rights work would be performed under this administration, and that there was an ‘optics problem’ with (OFH) being as large as it was,’” the Ranking Member Warren continued.
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