Ben Carson: HUD will ‘reinterpret’ Obama housing discrimination rule

By Joseph Lawler, Al Weaver

Published July 20, 2017 4:01am ET

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Ben Carson: HUD will ‘reinterpret’ Obama housing discrimination rule — The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which was finalized in 2015, is meant to implement part of the civil-rights-era Fair Housing Act by requiring local governments to spell out plans for reducing segregation, or risk eventually losing out on federal bock grants. Ben Carson has said he would seek to reinterpret it.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Wednesday that his agency will “reinterpret” the landmark Obama housing rule meant to address housing discrimination, a regulation that conservatives have criticized as tantamount to a national zoning board.

“Do I believe in fair housing? Of course, I believe in fair housing,” Carson told the Washington Examiner in a Wednesday interview. But he said he doesn’t believe in “extra manipulation and cost.”

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