在他的政府推翻奥巴马时代旨在反对种族隔离的住房法规一周后，总统唐纳德·特朗普吹嘘在一系列推文和评论煽动种族主义恐惧，试图争取几个月前来自郊区的保守派白人选民选举。
但是民调显示目前郊区选民不赞成总统的工作，尤其是他对种族关系的处理。
特朗普周三在得克萨斯州米德兰(Midland)表示:“你知道，在郊区，人们拼了一生的力气才来到郊区，拥有一个漂亮的家。”"将不会有更多的低收入住房被逼到郊区。"
2020年7月29日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在得克萨斯州米德兰双鹰能源石油钻塔之旅中发表演讲。
根据大量的住房数据，黑人、美国原住民和西班牙裔家庭比白人家庭更有可能成为低收入租房者报告。
特朗普表示，奥巴马时代的规则旨在减轻美国几十年种族隔离的影响，一直是“郊区的地狱”，并告诉观众“享受生活。”
周三的言论与当天早些时候的推文如出一辙，当时特朗普宣称，“生活在郊区生活方式梦想中”的人不必因为“在你的社区建造低收入住房”而在经济上或犯罪方面受到“困扰。”
他试图将此宣传为选民的福音，但他的批评者认为他是为了政治优势而废除民权。康涅狄格州参议员克里斯·墨菲(Chris Murphy)在推特上写道:“天哪。我是说，它甚至不再是狗哨子了。我们的总统现在是一个骄傲的、直言不讳的种族隔离主义者。”
这一切都遵循了总统数周以来一直使用的语言模式，他加大了对前副总统乔·拜登的攻击。
特朗普再次指望他在2016年赢得的郊区选民——从他一再的虚假和恐惧中可以明显看出——他声称民主党想要“废除”郊区——但他的分裂言论这次可能不会奏效。
最近的美国广播公司新闻/华盛顿邮报民意调查显示总统在这些街区落后拜登9%，这是自20世纪80年代共和党在郊区以两位数获胜以来民调记录的最大差距。
和纽约时报/锡耶纳学院投票从6月份开始，38%的郊区选民支持特朗普的工作表现，相比之下，59%的人反对。据《泰晤士报》报道，关键人群对特朗普最近处理抗议和种族关系的方式持更大的反对意见。
2020年7月29日，华盛顿，总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫南草坪走向海军一号时对记者说。
特朗普政府上周四正式废除了2015年的“积极推进公平住房”规则，即AFFH规则。该规则要求地方政府识别并解决1968年《公平住房法》规定为非法的种族隔离模式。该规则将联邦资金与消除不平等的努力联系起来。
特朗普对AFFH的攻击主要帮助了低收入和少数族裔家庭，也是在租房者住房不确定的情况下发生的，原因是持续的冠状病毒大流行。
这一决定可能不会立即产生实际影响，因为该机构自2018年以来就没有执行过这些规定。相反，住房和城市发展部的计划似乎被政治所牵制。
房屋司本·卡森说他用一个计划取代了这一规定，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。他称目前的规定是“在废除种族隔离的幌子下进行社会工程的诡计。”
但批评者称，撤销该法案将会导致更大的歧视，并伤害少数民族家庭。
他们指出，大量的研究表明，长期以来的政策传统将黑人、美国原住民和西班牙裔家庭拒之门外，同时他们还面临其他形式的住房歧视。
全国低收入住房联盟主席黛安·延特尔周三在推特上回应特朗普:“卑鄙、卑鄙、种族主义。”
NLIHC是14个公平住房和反种族主义团体之一声明上周谴责特朗普政府的行为。
“自从卡森部长踏入住房和城市发展部大楼的那一天起，他就一直致力于破坏公平住房，所以这一行动并不令人惊讶。但是，特朗普利用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，特别是在对种族不公正进行清算的时候。”
2020年6月9日，住房和城市发展部长本·卡森在DC华盛顿参议院银行、住房和城市事务委员会作证。
丽莎·赖斯，全国公平住房联盟的主席兼首席执行官，在一月份告诉全国广播公司新闻当卡森提出从根本上取消这一规定的建议时，“住房和城市发展部公布的并不是一项肯定会促进公平住房的规定。”
赖斯说:“这大大削弱了公平住房的合规性，巩固了隔离的住房模式，并延续了这样一种现状，即一些社区通过纳税人支持的项目和便利设施得到了加强，而其他社区却挨饿并被剥夺了机会。”
甚至像美国银行这样的主要实体，以及像全国房地产经纪人协会这样的政治献金人，都敦促特朗普政府反对这一举措。全国房地产经纪人协会辩论“现在不是”改变一项可能阻碍反对系统性种族主义的政策的时候。
许多人说，废除这项规定也忽视了数百万已经被甩在后面的美国人的经济现实。
最近的数据显示，没有一个州为低收入租房者提供足够的负担得起的租房。
A报告来自全国低收入住房联盟的调查发现，每100个极低收入租房家庭中，只有36个经济适用房。
在一些州，比如内华达州，情况甚至更糟，100户家庭只有18套住房。
支持者认为，解决无家可归问题最有效的方法之一是确保更多负担得起、更容易获得的住房。特朗普也批评了这一点。
Trump stokes racist fears after revoking Obama-era housing rule intended to fight segregation
A week after his administration overturned an Obama-era housing rule intended to fight racial segregation, PresidentDonald Trumpboasted about the rollback in a series oftweets and remarks, stirring racist fears in an attempt to court white conservative suburban voters months out from theelection.
But polling shows suburban voters currentlydisapproveof the president's job in general -- and even more so his handling of race relations.
"You know the suburbs, people fight all of their lives to get into the suburbs and have a beautiful home," Trump said Wednesday in Midland, Texas. "There will be no more low-income housing forced into the suburbs."
Black, Native American and Hispanic households are more likely than white households to be low-income renters, according to numerous housingreports.
Trump said the Obama-era rule, which sought to lessen the impact of decades of racial segregation in America's neighborhoods, has been "hell for suburbia" and told the audience to "enjoy your life."
The remarks Wednesday echoed tweets from earlier in the day, when Trump claimed that people "living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream" won't have to be "bothered" financially or with crime by having "low income housing built in your neighborhood."
His attempt to pitch it as a boon to voters has his critics arguing he's dismantling civil rights for a political advantage. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wrote on Twitter, "Oh my. I mean, it's not even a dog whistle anymore. Our President is now a proud, vocal segregationist."
It all follows a pattern of language the president has been using for weeks as he ramps up attacks on former Vice President Joe Biden.
Trump is again counting on the suburban voters he won in 2016 -- apparent by his repeated false and fear-invoking claims that Democrats want to "abolish" suburbs -- but his divisive rhetoric may not be working this time around.
A recentABC News/Washington Post pollshowed the president trailing Biden in those neighborhoods by 9% -- the largest margin in the suburbs that polls have recorded since the 1980s, when Republicans were winning there by double digits.
And a New York Times/Siena Collegepollfrom June found 38% of voters in the suburbs approve of Trump's job performance compared with 59% who disapprove. The key demographic disapproved of Trump's handling of recent protests and race relations by an even wider margin, according to the Times.
The Trump administration last Thursday officially dismantled the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or AFFH, rule from 2015, which required local governments to identify and address patterns of racial segregation outlawed under the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The rule tied federal funding to efforts to bridge inequalities.
Trump's attacks on the AFFH, which overwhelmingly helped low-income and minority households, also come amidst housing uncertainty for renters due to the ongoingcoronaviruspandemic.
The decision will likely have little immediate practical impact because the agency hadn't enforced the rules since 2018. Instead, the plan by the Department of Housing and Urban Development appears pinned on politics.
Housing SecretaryBen Carsonsaidhe was replacing the rule with a plan that more loosely defines the standard for fair housing as access to an affordable and safe residence. He called the current rule "a ruse for social engineering under the guise of desegregation."
But critics say rescinding it will allow for greater discrimination and harm minority households.
They point to numerous studies that have revealed a long tradition of policies that have kept Black, Native American, and Hispanic households out of white suburbs, along with other forms of housing discrimination they face.
"Vile, despicable, racist," Diane Yentel, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, tweeted in response to Trump Wednesday.
The NLIHC is one of 14 fair housing and anti-racism groups that issued a jointstatementlast week condemning the Trump administration's actions.
"Secretary Carson has worked to undermine fair housing since the day he stepped into the HUD building, so this action is not surprising. But it is abhorrent for Trump to use a critical fair housing tool for election year race-baiting, particularly during a time of reckoning for racial injustices," Yentel said.
Lisa Rice, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance,told NBC News in Januarywhen Carson issued a proposal to essentially eliminate the rule, "what HUD has released is not a rule to affirmatively further fair housing."
"It significantly weakens fair housing compliance, entrenches segregated housing patterns, and continues the status quo in which some communities are strengthened by taxpayer-supported programs and amenities while other neighborhoods are starved and deprived of opportunities," Rice said.
Even major entities, like Bank of America, and political contributors, such as the National Association of Realtors, had urged the Trump administration against the move. The National Association of Realtorsargued"now is not the time" to change a policy that could hinder progress against systemic racism.
Many say rescinding the rule also ignores the financial reality of millions of Americans already left behind.
Recent data shows that no state has an adequate supply of affordable rental housing for low-income renters.
Areportfrom the National Low Income Housing Coalition found that for every 100 extremely low-income renter households only 36 affordable homes are available.
In some states, like Nevada, the situation is even more dire, with only 18 homes available for 100 households.
Advocates argue that one of the most impactful solutions to problems around homelessness, which Trump has also criticized, is to ensure more affordable and accessible housing.
ABC News' Anne Flaherty, Jordyn Phelps and Stephanie Ebbs contributed to this report.
