Trump’s housing department rolls back work to combat residential segregation, whistleblowers allege

Allegations against Hud are latest sign of administration's plans to transform enforcement of US civil rights laws

For 57 years, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) has used a landmark civil rights law to bring lawsuits against discriminatory lenders, landlords and realtors, with the goal of fighting residential segregation.

That work has largely ground to a halt since Donald Trump returned to the White House, two attorneys in the department's anti-discrimination division said in interviews, as well as a whistleblower report sent to Congress and a lawsuit filed this week.