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Fair housing advocates warn federal cuts, data exposures could undermine local enforcement
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Megan Hammond, executive director of the Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, told the City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations on May 5 that recent federal changes to HUD’s fair-housing infrastructure are creating an urgent local need for action.
Megan Hammond, executive director of the Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, told the City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations on May 5 that recent federal changes to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s fair-housing infrastructure are creating an urgent local need for action.
"I can't overstate the crisis that fair housing is facing federally," Hammond said. She cited multiple concerns, including staff reductions at HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, termination notices to Fair Housing Initiatives Program grantees, and the proposed White House budget that would eliminate the FIP grant.
Hammond told commissioners that HUD’s case-handling and data systems have changed this year in ways that could expose sensitive complainant information and narrow the types of cases the agency accepts. "HEMS... has been made available to an outside agency that puts…
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