Democrats demand action from Biden on affordable housing

The Biden administration is under growing pressure to finalize a policy hailed by progressive Democrats as essential to ensuring people of color have access to affordable housing.

A group of 28 House Democrats is demanding the Biden administration quickly issue the long-pending policy amid growing anxiety that it won’t be released or would be released late enough in the president’s term that it could be subject to rollback by a potential Donald Trump administration.

The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which is designed to close gaps in the Fair Housing Act, has sat in regulatory limbo since it was proposed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development more than a year ago.