A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with the demand that it resume distributing Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP) funds to state- and city-level nonprofits tasked with investigating and litigating cases involving compliance with the Fair Housing Act.
In March, HUD halted the FHIP grant program as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting regimen. The majority of the nonprofits receiving the funds have annual budgets of less than $1 million and rely heavily on the grants to operate.
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and the Tennessee Fair Housing Council filed a class action complaint against HUD and Secretary Scott Turner in the US District Court for the District Columbia, stating the department was “flouting its obligation to administer a fair housing grant program established and funded by Congress.” The lawsuit also insisted HUD’s “abdication of duty will inflict devastating harm” against the nonprofits if they fail to receive the grants by the Sept. 30 deadline for congressionally approved fund distribution.
District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, gave HUD an Aug. 4 deadline to report how it planned to meet its fiscal year obligations on FHIP grant distribution. The restraining order is in effect through Aug. 11.
“If HUD is correct, it is free to ignore duly enacted and constitutional statutes directing it to award millions of dollars in grant funding by a certain date and this court is powerless to hear the dispute or take steps to ensure compliance with the statutes,” Sooknanan wrote. “That is not the law.”
HUD did not issue a public comment on the ruling.
These partisan hack “judges” have to go! They call themselves progressive but they’ll do anything to thwart true progress.
Yeah they are all hacks unless they kiss the ring of the King right? What is true progress only help the rich and kick the poor trying to make a living and put a roof over their heads in the teeth? Where is Elon now that he cut all of these things? On Trump’s list because he went against him in the “Big Ugly Bill”. Anyone who might care about the little guy is partisan and a hack according to you MAGA people. It is shameful and if I were you I’d jump off the Trump train as soon as I can. When he gets his pockets lined with gold he is going to jump off and let all of you crash. Who am I kidding he will never have enough grifting off the poor but sooner or later he will leave all of his followers in the dust laughing all the way as they wear his cologne and read his bible that he knows nothing about.
Deb, You are right-on about the biggist grifter of all…Trump. He is taking our economy over the cliff and most likely it will be bankrupt by next year. Sooooo sad.
I thought we were supposed to be bankrupt and in another great depression by now. Also, black people were going to be slaves and women were going to become second class citizens. Now were predicting other terrible things eh? Were you also someone who had Kamala winning in a landslide in the polls? And Biden being sharp as a tack?
A Biden appointee who wants to continue the polices the Country voted against.
The majority of the country did vote for Trump but it had nothing to do with policies as a majority of MAGA have no clue what policies are. They love Trump and he loved that they all put him back in there so he could stay out of court, I would say out of jail but there was never a chance of him going. What policy are you referring to? The rule of law? Trump knows nothing about that, other than breaking them all. Some of the MAGA crowd is finally realizing their master might just be what they all fight so hard against but DOJ is trying their best to cover it all up. If this was a democrat, the republicans would live in the capital building until the democrat was impeached but instead of standing up to Trump, they all ran home. Trump was going to lower food costs on day one among many other things that really matter to most of us but prices have only went up and the rich keep their tax breaks at the cost of taking food out of children’s mouths…they should all be ashamed but this is what the vast majority wanted and they are in for more than they bargained for as the BIG UGLY BILL charges ahead…..
What does fair housing do? It is a script being pushed out on Realtors via mandatory required now CEUs to renew your real estate licensure bi annually..
Seriously, do you really need to be indoctrinated into believing fair housing is in the OATH we took as a realtor…
Fair housing is another big non-profit – bogus entity..
If you have eyes and a brain to see thru the corruption..you may see the light of day…
Stop donating our tax dollars to fake govt programs like 90% of not for profits..
How has the world gotten better?
Where are all the dollars going too!???
I dare anyone to find out how many not for profits exist and it’s astonishing huge..
Yet the complaints keep coming to fix this fix that… give me money .. I’ll fix it and ( hahaha pay no taxes on the cash receipts because I’m a NGO/NFP being exempt n all)
The joke has been on we the people for way too long..
You do not need a medal to sacrifice your time and labor to help humanity.
You do not need money to help humanity..
I believe everyone forgot..it’s in your heart to do the right thing..
If you need a placard/medal and accreditation for your good deeds..
You’ve got a real bad ego problem…
Just saying!
LOL, I’m enjoying the childish rants of the mentally ill leftists here. Trump and America will prevail. Good will defeat evil and the Democrat party is 100% evil now. It’s like it’s 1865 again.
SO THEY CAN STILL FRAUD THE TAXPAYER? What happened to DOGE??? I know…
TDS is a mental illness. It requires years of institutionalization in an asylum. I’d rather have my tax dollars go to asylums for all the Leftists than all the NGOs, charities, and other bogus entities that line the pockets of Demonkraps and their family members. All the TDS sufferers can move to another country or blow your brains out. I don’t care. Demonkraps are never going to be in positions of power in this country again. Thank you, DJT.
The court has no power over hud, And how it disperses funds or policies, with the exception of discrimination or criminal activity.
MN has been “gifted” with a governor who wastes more time being on the road losing political campaigns (he was the Democratic VP candidate) than he does watching over how taxpayer funds are spent (note there are 4 different programs that were fraudulently raided by fraudsters costing taxpayers millions). Luckily the federal government has stepped in to investigate. It’s about time our state officials use good old-fashioned auditing to find where all the taxyer funds went.