More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general from across the country joined together to file a lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday over the agency’s efforts to dismantle fair housing enforcement.
“HUD is attempting to impose vague, ideologically motivated and unlawful conditions on program funding,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said at a Monday press conference. “If these actions are left unchallenged, discrimination in housing is almost certain to increase.”
The lawsuit, led by Raul and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, was also joined by the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.