This comment responds to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD's) proposed revisions to a rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (published on January 14, 2020). HUD’s proposal omits key information necessary to assess local jurisdictions' progress complying with the Fair Housing Act. Analysis by Claudia Solari, Martha Galvez, Kate Thomas, and Solomon Greene suggests that HUD's proposed race-neutral approach would be incomplete at best and risks obscuring and perpetuating discriminatory housing patterns and practices. In this comment, Solari and colleagues focus primarily on HUD’s proposed reliance on metrics that do not reflect housing access for protected groups and the use of a ranking system to identify higher- or lower-performing jurisdictions. They provide the data from their analyses, which are drawn from HUD's publicly available Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing data tools.
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