President Threatens to Eliminate Obama-Era Housing Policy
(WorldNews Politics)

An apartment complex that houses many refugees and immigrants in Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 9, 2019. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has taken aim at an Obama-era program intended to eliminate racial housing disparities in the suburbs, a move proponents of the policy see as an attempt to shore up his sagging support among white suburban voters by stoking racial division. In a Twitter post late Tuesday, Trump announced that he was considering the elimination of a 2015 initiative known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which requires localities to identify and address patterns of racial segregation outlawed under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by...