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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3086 
To restore the fair housing mission of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 29, 2025 
Ms. WATERS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To restore the fair housing mission of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Restoring Fair Hous-
ing Protections Eliminated by Trump Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The current Administration has taken sev-
eral steps that seriously undermine the American 
people’s fair housing protections. 
(2) On February 10, 2025, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development announced that he 
would halt all current and future enforcement of the 
Departments’s Equal Access Rule that protect per-
sons who are experiencing homelessness from dis-
crimination on the basis of sexual orientation and 
gender identity while residing in shelters and while 
receiving homeless services. 
(3) On February 11, 2025, Secretary Scott 
Turner stated in an interview regarding the halting 
of Equal Access Rule enforcement that, ‘‘We want 
to uphold, first, what the bible says—that there’s 
male and female’’ and also stated that Department 
of Housing and Urban Development and the Office 
of Management and Budget ‘‘are going after 
AFFH’’. 
(4) On February 12, 2025, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development submitted an in-
terim final rule about affirmatively furthering fair 
housing to the Office of Management and Budget 
for review. 
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(5) On February 12, 2025, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development submitted a pro-
posed Equal Access Rule to the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget for review. 
(6) On February 14, 2025, Bloomberg Law re-
ported that the Trump Administration plans to 
eliminate 50 percent of the staff at the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development. 
(7) On February 26, 2025, ProPublica reported 
that the United States DOGE Service (commonly re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Department of Government Effi-
ciency’’ or ‘‘DOGE’’) was given access to confiden-
tial fair housing discrimination complaints. 
(8) On February 26, 2025, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development announced the re-
scission of the rule to affirmatively further fair hous-
ing and announced the Department will now rely on 
localities to self-certify that they comply with the 
law, even if the locality has not shown to the De-
partment that it has affirmatively furthered fair 
housing, through an interim final rule issued on 
March 3, 2025, entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering 
Fair Housing Revisions’’. 
(9) On February 25, 2025, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, at the direction of 
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the United States DOGE Service (commonly re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Department of Government Effi-
ciency’’ or ‘‘DOGE’’), canceled 78 Fair Housing Ini-
tiatives Program grants that private nonprofit fair 
housing organizations use to investigate and root out 
illegal housing discrimination. 
(10) On March 13, 2025, Fair Housing Initia-
tives Program grantees filed a class action lawsuit in 
a United States District Court. 
(11) On March 25, 2025, the United States 
District Court in the District of Massachusetts 
granted a temporary restraining order directing the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to re-
instate the 78 Fair Housing Initiatives Program 
grants. 
SEC. 3. MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT. 
Section 2 of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3531) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘; MIS-
SION OF DEPARTMENT’’ after ‘‘PURPOSE’’; 
(2) by inserting ‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—’’ after ‘‘SEC. 
2.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(b) MISSION OF DEPARTMENT.—The mission of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be 
to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and 
quality affordable homes for all. The Department shall 
work to strengthen the housing market to bolster the econ-
omy and protect consumers, meet the need for quality af-
fordable rental homes, utilize housing as a platform for 
improving quality of life, build inclusive and sustainable 
communities free from discrimination, and transform the 
way the Department does business.’’. 
SEC. 
4. 
IMPLEMENTATION 
OF 
AFFIRMATIVELY 
FUR-
THERING FAIR HOUSING REGULATION. 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall, not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this section— 
(1) repeal the interim final rule issued on 
March 3, 2025, entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering 
Fair Housing Revisions’’; and 
(2) issue a rule that defines ‘‘affirmatively fur-
ther fair housing’’ as taking meaningful actions, in 
addition to combating discrimination, that overcome 
patterns of segregation and foster inclusive commu-
nities free from barriers that restrict access to op-
portunity based on protected characteristics. Specifi-
cally, affirmatively furthering fair housing means 
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taking meaningful actions that, taken together, ad-
dress significant disparities in housing needs and in 
access to opportunity, replacing segregated living 
patterns with truly integrated and balanced living 
patterns, transforming racially or ethnically con-
centrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, 
and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil 
rights and fair housing laws. The duty to affirma-
tively further fair housing extends to all of a pro-
gram participant’s activities and programs relating 
to housing and urban development. 
SEC. 5. REVIEW OF ONLINE COMPLAINTS OF VIOLATIONS 
OF FAIR HOUSING ACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall submit to the Congress 
a report which contains— 
(1) a review of the complaints filed with the 
Secretary under section 810 of the Fair Housing 
Act (42 U.S.C. 3610) during the 5 year period pre-
ceding the date of the enactment of this Act that al-
leged a discriminatory housing practice involving a 
digital platform or artificial intelligence, including 
any artificial intelligence used for— 
(A) advertisement delivery and targeting; 
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(B) tenant screening; 
(C) automated mortgage underwriting; 
(D) dynamic pricing of real estate; and 
(E) real estate listings; and 
(2) an analysis of trends and risks related to— 
(A) discrimination that occurs in connec-
tion with the use of digital platforms to rent or 
purchase housing; 
(B) the sufficiency of the Fair Housing 
Act to remedy discrimination during the rental 
or purchase of housing through digital plat-
forms; and 
(C) steps the Secretary plans to take to 
address such discrimination. 
(b) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINED.—In this 
section, term ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ has the meaning 
given the term in section 238(g) of the John S. McCain 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 
(Public Law 115–232). 
SEC. 6. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATABASE FOR FAIR HOUS-
ING COMPLAINTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall develop, and update on a quar-
terly basis, a database that is publicly available on a 
website of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
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opment, which includes, subject to applicable confiden-
tiality constraints, the following: 
(1) The total number of complaints alleging vio-
lations of the Fair Housing Act that were received 
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, disaggregated with respect to both number 
and percentage, by each protected class established 
under such Act. 
(2) The number and percentage of the total 
number of complaints that allege violations of the 
Violence Against Women Act. 
(3) The number and percentage of the total 
number of complaints referred to in paragraphs (1) 
and (2) that— 
(A) were made by persons experiencing 
homelessness; 
(B) were made by tenants; and 
(C) were made by persons who have ap-
plied for covered housing, disaggregated by 
each specific type of covered housing for which 
such person applied. 
(4) For each State, the number and percentage 
of the total number of complaints referred to in 
paragraphs (1) and (2) that were made by residents 
of such State. 
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(5) The number and percentage of the total 
number complaints referred to in paragraphs (1) 
and (2) that alleged that the complainant was retali-
ated against after reporting the alleged violation 
and, of such number, the number and percentage 
that alleged that the complainant was evicted for 
any retaliatory reason. 
(6) The status of the complaints referred to in 
paragraphs (1) and (2), including a detailed descrip-
tion of the resolutions and remedies provided and, 
for complaints that were administratively closed, of 
the reasons for such closures. 
(7) The number and percentage of the total 
number of complaints referred to in paragraph (1) 
that were received by— 
(A) State agencies assisted under the Fair 
Housing Assistance Program authorized under 
section 810 of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
3610); and 
(B) local agencies assisted under the Fair 
Housing Initiatives Program authorized under 
section 817 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3616). 
(8) The number and percentage of the total 
number of complaints referred to in paragraph (1) 
that ended in a reasonable cause charge by the Sec-
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retary of Housing and Urban Development or were 
referred to the Attorney General by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
(9) The number and percentage of the total 
number of complaints referred to in paragraph (1) 
received by the Attorney General that were not re-
ferred to the Attorney General by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
(b) COVERED HOUSING.—In this section, the term 
‘‘covered housing’’— 
(1) with respect to a complaint alleging a viola-
tion of the Fair Housing Act, means— 
(A) housing assisted under the program 
for supportive housing for the elderly under sec-
tion 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 
U.S.C. 1701q), including the direct loans pro-
gram under such section 202 as in effect before 
the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 
101–625; November 28, 1990); 
(B) housing assisted under the program 
for supportive housing for persons with disabil-
ities under section 811 of the Cranston-Gon-
zalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 8013); 
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(C) housing assisted under the program 
for housing opportunities for people with AIDS/ 
HIV under subtitle D of title VIII of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act 
(42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.); 
(D) housing assisted under any of the pro-
grams under subtitles B through D of title IV 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.); 
(E) housing assisted under the HOME In-
vestments Partnerships program under subtitle 
A of title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12741 et 
seq.); 
(F) housing assisted under the rent supple-
ment program under section 101 of the Hous-
ing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 
U.S.C. 1701s); 
(G) housing financed by a loan or mort-
gage that is insured under section 203 of the 
National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709); 
(H) housing financed by a loan or mort-
gage that is— 
(i) secured by a first or subordinate 
lien on a residential real property, includ-
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ing any such secured loan, the proceeds of 
which are used to prepay or pay off an ex-
isting loan secured by the same property; 
and 
(ii) purchased or securitized by the 
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation 
or the Federal National Mortgage Associa-
tion; 
(I) housing insured, assisted, or held by 
the Secretary or a State or State agency under 
the multifamily rental assistance program 
under section 236 of the National Housing Act 
(12 U.S.C. 1715z–1); 
(J) public housing assisted under title I of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437 et seq.); 
(K) a dwelling unit assisted under the 
Housing Choice Voucher program for rental as-
sistance under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)); 
(L) housing assisted with project-based 
rental assistance provided under section 8 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f); 
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(M) housing assisted with funds from the 
Housing Trust Fund as established under sec-
tion 1338 of the Federal Housing Enterprises 
Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 
(12 U.S.C. 4568); 
(N) housing assisted under any of the 
rural housing assistance programs under sec-
tion 514, 515, 516, 533, 538, or 542 of the 
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1484, 1485, 
1486, 1490m, 1490p–2, 1490r); 
(O) any housing project for which equity is 
provided through any low-income housing tax 
credit pursuant to section 42 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 42); 
(P) housing assisted under the Comprehen-
sive Service Programs for Homeless Veterans 
program under subchapter II of chapter 20 of 
title 38, United States Code (38 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.); 
(Q) housing and facilities assisted under 
the grant program for homeless veterans with 
special needs under section 2061 of title 38, 
United States Code; 
(R) permanent housing for which assist-
ance is provided under the program for finan-
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cial assistance for supportive services for very 
low-income veteran families in permanent hous-
ing under section 2044 of title 38, United 
States Code; 
(S) any other housing assisted by any 
housing program administered by the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs; 
(T) housing assisted by the Community 
Development Financial Institutions Fund estab-
lished under the Community Development 
Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 
(12 U.S.C. 4701 et seq.); 
(U) housing assisted under the Neighbor-
hood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 
8101 et seq.); 
(V) housing assisted under title I of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), including hous-
ing assisted with amounts provided during a 
disaster as described in such Act; 
(W) transitional or short-term housing as-
sisted under the grant program under chapter 
11 of subtitle B of Violent Crime Control and 
Law Enforcement Act of 1994; 
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(X) housing assisted under such other 
Federal housing programs as identified for the 
purposes of this section; and 
(Y) Federally subsidized dwelling units 
that provide affordable housing to low-income 
persons by means of restricted rents or rental 
assistance, as identified for the purposes of this 
section; and 
(2) with respect to a complaint alleging a viola-
tion of the Violence Against Women Act, means a 
covered housing program (as that term is defined in 
section 41411 of such Act (34 U.S.C. 12491)). 
Æ 
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