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2026 Events (3)
HUD overhauled Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants, cutting 100+ nonprofit recipients to five including $25M to one law school
On July 2, 2026, HUD issued notices of funding opportunity restructuring the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), the congressionally appropriated grant program that has funded local fair-housing enforcement nonprofits since 1987, cutting the pool of recipients from over 100 to roughly five -- including $25 million to a single law school -- while requiring grantees to draw at least half their funding from non-government sources and barring funding tied to "gender ideology" or "illegal immigration." HUD Secretary Scott Turner, who told the Senate in May 2026 the agency would "enforce the law as written, and nothing else," is named as defendant in litigation over the restructuring brought by the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center.
HUD proposed a rule rescinding gender-identity protections across nearly 50 housing regulations, restricting shelters to biological sex
On April 23, 2026, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a proposed rule that would remove gender-identity and sexual-orientation protections from nearly 50 housing regulations and revise its 2016 Equal Access Rule. The proposal would define sex by biological classification across HUD programs and permit operators of single-sex facilities, including emergency shelters, to require "reasonable assurances and evidence" of a person's sex, effectively barring transgender people from shelters that match their gender identity. HUD Secretary Scott Turner framed the proposal as implementing President Trump's January 2025 executive order to restore "biological truth" to the federal government.
HUD launched a Fair Housing investigation into Washington's Covenant Homeownership Program for communities excluded by racially restrictive covenants
On March 24, 2026, HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity launched a Fair Housing Act investigation into Washington State's Covenant Homeownership Program, a down-payment and closing-cost assistance initiative created by bipartisan 2023 state legislation to address documented racially restrictive housing covenants that had historically excluded Black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous homebuyers. HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced the investigation stating "DEI is dead at HUD," asserting that a preliminary review "strongly suggests" the program violates the Fair Housing Act; a final determination remained pending. A federal judge had denied a legal challenge to the program in February 2026, finding that Washington had a compelling interest in addressing racial disparities in homeownership. Washington became the third state or local government targeted by HUD for such investigations, following prior probes into Minneapolis and Boston housing programs.