Published April 28, 2025
On April 28, 2025, EPPC scholar Rachel N. Morrison submitted a public comment supporting the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) interim final rule (IFR) revising “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions. The IFR replaces 2021 housing regulations that EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz criticized as “classic regulatory activism.”
As Morrison summarized in her comment:
I support the IFR’s replacement of the 2021 [regulations] and the Department’s goals of promoting affordable, fair, decent, safe, and better housing for Americans by means of deregulation and providing states and localities with more flexibility.
Morrison explained how the IFR’s replacement of the term “gender” with “sex” and removal of racial preferences in the housing regulations aligns with the text of the Fair Housing Act and Supreme Court decisions. She also provided several recommendations for improvements to the regulations and urged HUD to finalize the IFR with her recommendations.
Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.
