Federal housing rule change is self-defeating, Catholic leaders warn feedproxy.google.com

Changes to federal fair housing rules undermine the government's responsibility to guide efforts to overcome the legacy of racial discrimination and economic segregation, U.S. bishops said Tuesday.

“Fair housing regulations remain one of the key tools for addressing long standing inequities and historical disadvantages and must be strengthened, not weakened,” leading figures in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities said in a July 28 statement.

The statement responded to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's decision to replace the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule with a new rule that will have less regulation…