New article discussing the legal strategy behind the whites only "Return To The Land" (RTTL) housing community going up outside Ravenden, Arkansas. Included a quick overview of past attempts at similar projects:

RTTL has described itself as a “private membership association (PMA) for individuals and families with traditional views and European ancestry.” Its leaders claim they are not in the business of selling land and therefore do not need to follow laws intended to stop racial segregation in housing. RTTL’s legal theory has yet to be tested in court; however, the Arkansas attorney general’s office said it is reviewing the matter. Other experts have said this is a clear violation of the law. “Federal and state law, including the Fair Housing Act, prohibit housing discrimination based on race, period,” ReNika Moore, director of the racial justice program at the American Civil Liberties Union, told The New York Times. “Repackaging residential segregation as a ‘private club’ is still a textbook violation of federal law.”

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/inside-return-land-new-group-legalize-segregation/

#WhiteSupremacy #racism #NeoNazis #fcknzs #Ravenden #Arkansas #ReturnToTheLand #HousingDiscrimination #housing

Inside Return to the Land ‘whites-only’ community in Arkansas

A group of white nationalists attempt to build a white separatist neighborhood on 160 acres — an outright attack on the Fair Housing Act.

Southern Poverty Law Center

HUD Whistleblowers Say Trump Admin Is Gutting Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws

The White House is “systematically destroying” protections for renters and homeowners, Sen. Elizabeth Warren says.

https://murica.website/2025/09/hud-whistleblowers-say-trump-admin-is-gutting-enforcement-of-fair-housing-laws/

HUD Whistleblowers Say Trump Admin Is Gutting Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws – The USA Potato

Federal Housing Agency Adopts English-Only Policy

HUD’s deputy secretary says the agency will speak in “one language” to fulfill its mission to help those in need.

https://murica.website/2025/08/federal-housing-agency-adopts-english-only-policy/

Federal Housing Agency Adopts English-Only Policy – The USA Potato

 
"Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred." - @ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution

#housingdiscrimination #HUD #FHEO #CRA #Trump

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases

Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.

ProPublica

“Local laws prohibiting landlords from discriminating against tenants who receive public assistance are unenforceable under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Mike Kehoe. 

The legislation takes aim at ordinances passed in several Missouri cities to protect tenants from discrimination based on the source of their income — especially tenants who use federal housing choice vouchers, known as Section 8 vouchers, to pay rent.”

#Politics #USPolitics #HousingDiscrimination

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2025/07/135569-missouri-governor-reverses-anti-discrimination-housing-policies

Trump's attack on diversity take center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKNkjl #Diversity #MLK #BostonRally #CivilRights #HousingDiscrimination

What's the problem? Don't you trust Elon Musk and his DOGE script kiddies to keep all this sensitive and confidential data safe?

#DOGE #Musk #HUD #HousingDiscrimination #DomesticViolence #privacy

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-elon-musk-hud-housing-discrimination-privacy-domestic-violence

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence

While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.

ProPublica

#Project2025
Section on #HUD
p 541 — 2025 Presidential Transition Project

"HUD ::: political leadership ::: should immediately assign all delegated powers to; . . .
3. Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation reinstituted under the Biden Administration & any other uses of special-purpose credit authorities to further equity."
Striking at the heart of oversight & enforcement of the Fair H Act 2 combat discrimination in housing.
#FHA #housingdiscrimination
#FHEO

Mapping Racist Covenants: How a UArizona geographer's research informed a new Arizona law | University of Arizona News

A project led by Jason Jurjevich informed a law that lets homeowners remove unlawful restrictions from their property records.

At the same time, however, I want to end on an optimistic note, and watching #TippingTheVelvet reminded me that when I first saw it, #SameSexMarriage wasn't legal in the US, and it is now, even if its future is in doubt. Also, at the time, the city near where I went to college was having a referendum on #LGBTQHousing and #HousingDiscrimination, which eventually won #HousingRights for queer people. Dan Savage's #ItGetsBetter campaign was going viral.

We were fighting the bigots then, and it felt like we were winning. Now it feels like we're on the backfoot in that fight, but that doesn't mean the fight is over. We've come really far, too far to give up now, and we have the opportunity to both protect what we've won while pushing for true #justice and #equity.
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#QueerRepresentation #Queer #LGBTQ #QueerMedia #Sapphic #Lesbian