HUD says it reduced pending Title VIII fair-housing complaints by 46%, but provided few details. The National Fair Housing Alliance says the figure lacks context, points to cuts in enforcement staffing and funding, and says HUD withheld public 2025 complaint data.
HUD also announced nine discrimination charges over the past six months, including several involving disability or familial status and one involving sexual harassment, and a separate disability-case settlement requiring a $110,000 payout. It charged 47 cases in 2023 and 31 in 2024. Secretary Scott Turner said the agency inherited an inefficient case system that delayed or politicized investigations and enforcement.
A 2024 report by HUD's Office of Inspector General found 70% of investigations from 2020 to 2022 were not closed within the Fair Housing Act's required 100 days, citing limited staffing, complex cases and uncooperative parties. The National Fair Housing Alliance and other groups are suing HUD over alleged grant-funding changes that they say could disqualify existing fair-housing groups and make claims harder to pursue; the suit is ongoing.
