Cuts to Housing Nonprofits Will Spur Discrimination, Democrats Say

Representative Maxine Waters of California and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts say they are banding together to fight the Trump administration’s recent cuts that they say will leave Americans unprotected from housing discrimination. On Monday, the two Democrats delivered a letter to Housing and Urban Development secretary Scott Turner that said cutbacks to fair housing initiatives will “embolden housing discrimination” and put “people’s lives at risk.” The letter has 108 signatures, all from Democrats in Congress...

Caroline Peattie, the executive director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, said her organization had used the grants to build an expansive fair housing testing operation that allowed the group to pinpoint when landlords might be discriminating against renters. “I am very concerned about the long-term sustainability of our organization,” she said.

Both Ms. Peattie and Ms. Nelson said that their organizations are currently leaning on cash reserves. But in other places, fair housing work has already been frozen. Declarations filed alongside last week’s lawsuit offer details of the

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