Ben Carson is aiming to get local governments to allow more housing construction, attempting to address a local-level problem — the housing crisis afflicting many parts of the country — using federal levers of power.

The Housing and Urban Development secretary took the first step Monday toward overhauling a 2015 Obama administration fair housing rule to redirect it away from economic integration and toward easing restrictive zoning and land use policies.

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