"Our investigators wear badges; they are law enforcement agencies. That is what Congress has charged them with. And that is the oath that we took when we decided to take these positions. And the frank fact of the matter is that right now discrimination is not being prosecuted. Fair housing laws are not being enforced. And what that means is that every American is less able to secure safe and stable housing."
"At least 115 federal fair housing cases have been halted or closed entirely since Trump took office. The staff attorneys first wrote their whistleblower report in the form of a confidential letter to US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on August 27. (Warren is the ranking Democratic Party member on the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.) They chose to make their letter public on September 22."
The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is charged by Congress to investigate and prosecute discrimination nationwide under the Fair Housing Act. Four HUD fair housing staff attorneys produced a whistleblower report alleging widespread case closures and halted investigations, noting at least 115 federal fair housing cases stopped since the Trump administration took office. The attorneys submitted a confidential letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren on August 27 and made it public on September 22. Two named attorneys, Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan, were dismissed on September 29 and intend to seek whistleblower protections. Reduced enforcement diminishes Americans' ability to secure stable housing.
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