Trump pledges to help 'many great Americans who live in the Suburbs' with racist housing policy
Trump pledges to help 'many great Americans who live in the Suburbs' with racist housing policy
Jul 01, 2020 2:03pm Eastern Daylight Time by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1957485
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Donald Trump’s latest effort to consolidate the racist vote (as if he doesn’t already have that locked down) is a renewed threat to an Obama-era fair housing regulation already delayed and amended by his administration. The racist dog whistle couldn’t have been clearer.
“At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas,” Trump tweeted. “Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them MUCH WORSE. Not fair to homeowners, I may END!”
To Trump, “suburbs” and “homeowners” clearly means “white.” In reality there are lots of people of color and immigrants in suburbs, and many people of color are homeowners as well. But the fact that there remains substantial inequality, that a politician can say “suburbs” and “homeowners” and expect to be heard to be talking about white people, is in very large part because of the kind of racist housing policies that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule is aimed at rolling back.
The Obama administration created the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule to try to finally enforce the 1968 Fair Housing Act’s requirement that “All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and urban development (including any Federal agency having regulatory or supervisory authority over financial institutions) in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of” the law. At the time the Obama administration released its policy, then-HUD Secretary Julián Castro said “the fact is that federal efforts have often fallen short” on enforcement. That effort to enforce a 50-year-old law and to ensure that “A ZIP code should never prevent any person from reaching their aspirations,” as Castro said at the time, is what Trump is so exercised about.
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