A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from restructuring a grant program that provides funding for more than 100 nonprofit housing groups.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston ruled the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision to carry out changes to the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), which was established by Congress in 1988.
Joun’s ruling came in a lawsuit by the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, which sued in July to block the changes.
The judge said Congress had for decades recognized fair housing organizations needed federal funding to tackle discrimination and enforce the 1968 Fair Housing Act. …