周四，特朗普政府正式废除了奥巴马时代的一项规定，该规定旨在减轻美国几十年种族隔离政策的影响，此举旨在讨好郊区的白人保守派选民。
住房部长本·卡森说，他正在用一项计划取代这项被称为“积极推进公平住房”的规定，该计划更宽泛地将公平住房的标准定义为获得负担得起的安全住所。
他在周四发布的一份声明中表示，在审查了奥巴马的规定后，“我们发现，地方政府遵守该规定是不可行的，最终是在浪费时间，这往往导致资金被引向最需要资金的社区。”
他在推特上写道:“AFFH(奥巴马)规则是一个社会工程的诡计，打着取消种族隔离的幌子，实质上是把@HUDgov变成了一个国家分区委员会。”
这一决定可能不会立即产生实际影响，因为该机构已经在2018年暂停了该规定的执行。相反，住房和城市发展部的计划似乎旨在煽动种族紧张局势选举一年。
特朗普在虚拟市政厅警告选民民主党候选人乔·拜登想“废除”郊区，取消单一家庭分区，“把谁知道到你的郊区，所以你的社区将是不安全的，你的住房价值将下降。”
2020年6月10日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫内阁会议室会见卡森和其他保守派黑人支持者时，聆听了住房和城市发展部长本·卡森的讲话。
白宫向记者分发的一份情况介绍称，此举是“拯救我们的郊区:这一行动结束了联邦政府对威胁我们国家郊区的当地社区的侵犯。”
全国低收入住房联盟主席黛安·延特尔(Diane Yentel)表示，卡森废除这一规定的理由是“无稽之谈。”
她在推特上写道:“公平住房法案试图通过种族主义的住房政策来消除几十年来的社会工程，这些政策创造了种族隔离的社区。”“美国住房和城市发展部的证券交易委员会如此蓄意地无视(住房)历史，如此蔑视其维护法律的义务，这是可耻的。”
托马斯银色啤酒杯乐队，法律下的公民权利律师委员会的主席和执行董事，称这是“对法治的全面攻击，是对那些公开反对这一行动的组织和其他人的侮辱”。
他在一份声明中说:“民权运动将全力以赴。”
巴拉克·奥巴马总统2015年的公平住房规则旨在鼓励当地社区解决根深蒂固的住房隔离模式，这种模式决定了美国人在哪里购物、上学和获得医疗保健。
在奥巴马的领导下，联邦资金取决于社区积极考虑如何减少不平等，并在法规和许可决定中提供公平的住房。
例如，新奥尔良的计划建议在有大量经济机会的地区扩大经济适用房的选择，并在服务不足的社区投资公共交通、学校和公园。
但批评者表示，这一规定令人困惑，用于提交报告和衡量进展的计算机工具也难以使用。特朗普上任后不久，卡森领导下的住房和城市发展部暂停了该规则的实施。卡森此前曾表示，去年1月发布的新提案关注的是住房选择的理念，而非减少歧视。
延特尔说，现在推动该计划并不令人惊讶，因为奥巴马的规则在特朗普治下没有得到执行。
周四，她在推特上回应这一声明:“但是，利用一个关键的公平住房工具来进行选举年的种族诱饵是令人憎恶的，尤其是在一个对种族不公正进行清算的时期。”
Trump officially dismantles Obama fair housing rule he's never enforced
In a move squarely aimed at courting white conservative suburban voters, the Trump administration on Thursday officially dismantled an Obama-era rule that sought to lessen the impact of decades of racial segregation in America's neighborhoods.
Housing Secretary Ben Carson said he was replacing the rule, known as the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, with a plan that more loosely defines the standard for fair housing as access to an affordable and safe residence.
Upon review of the Obama regulation, "we found it to be unworkable and ultimately a waste of time for localities to comply with, too often resulting in funds being steered away from communities that need them most,” he said in a statement released Thursday.
"The AFFH (Obama) rule was a ruse for social engineering under the guise of desegregation, essentially turning @HUDgov into a national zoning board," he tweeted.
The decision was likely to have little immediate practical impact because the agency had already suspended enforcement of the rule in 2018. Instead, the plan by the Department of Housing and Urban Development seemed aimed at stoking racial tensions in anelectionyear.
Trump hinted at the move when he warned voters in a virtual town hall that Democratic candidateJoe Bidenwants to "abolish" the suburbs and eliminate single family zoning, "bringing who knows into your suburbs, so your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will go down.”
A White House fact sheet distributed to reporters that described the move as, "SAVING OUR SUBURBS: This action ends the Federal encroachment on local communities that threatened our nation’s suburbs."
Diane Yentel, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said Carson's rationale for dismantling the rule was "nonsense."
"The Fair Housing Act sought to undo decades of social engineering via racist housing policies that created segregated communities," she tweeted. "Shameful for a HUD Sec to be so willfully ignorant of (housing) history and so disdainful of his obligation to uphold law."
Thomas Silverstein, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called it a "full-frontal assault on the rule of law and an insult" to the organizations and others who spoke out against the move.
"The civil rights movement will fight this tooth and nail," he said in a statement.
President Barack Obama’s 2015 fair housing rule was aimed at trying to encourage local communities to address deeply ingrained patterns of housing segregation that determine where Americans shop, go to school and access to health care.
Under Obama, federal money was contingent upon the community proactively considering how to reduce inequality and provide fair housing in regulations and permitting decisions.
New Orleans' plan, for example, proposed expanding affordable housing options in areas with lots of economic opportunities and investing in public transit, schools, and parks in underserved communities.
But critics said the rule was confusing and the computer tool used to submit reports and measure progress was too difficult to use. HUD under Carson suspended implementation of the rule soon after Trump took office. The new proposal, released last January, focused on the idea of housing choice rather than reducing discrimination, Carson has said previously.
Yentel said the push to advance the plan now isn't surprising because the Obama rule wasn't enforced under Trump.
"But it’s abhorrent to use a critical fair housing tool for election year race-baiting, particularly during a time of reckoning for racial injustice," she tweeted Thursday in response to the announcement.
