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CityLab Daily: How HUD Could Dismantle a Pillar of Civil Rights Law
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Backdoor plan: On Monday, the Trump administration will introduce a new rule making it harder for people to bring discrimination complaints under the Fair Housing Act. The proposal from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would reverse Obama-era rules and raise the burden of proof for parties claiming discrimination through “disparate impact,” a civil rights legal theory that allows challenges to policies that have an adverse affect on minorities without explicit discrimination.