WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled new rules to combat segregation in federally subsidized housing, a piece of President Obama’s effort to address the racial disparities he argues are helping fuel unrest in cities across the country.
The long-awaited regulations, which are to be detailed at a news conference in Chicago by Juliàn Castro, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, are intended to enforce Civil Rights-era fair housing laws whose mandate to desegregate communities and foster integration has long been ignored. The completion of the rules was first reported by The Washington Post.
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