WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego issued the following press release:
Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, joined 31 Senate Democratic colleagues in a comment letter (https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/20260429lettertohudredisparateimpactrule.pdf) to the Trump Administration opposing the rollback of a civil rights regulation implementing the disparate impact standard in housing, which prohibits policies and practices in housing, lending, and community development that have a discriminatory effect. The Senators describe how HUD's proposal rule will weaken enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, embolden systemic and covert housing discrimination, including throug...