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Executive Actions and Project 2025: Implications for Housing, Lending & Technology
The administration has issued anti-diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility Executive Orders (EOs) and taken other actions designed to stop lawful efforts to advance equitable opportunities. These actions appear to track Project 2025, which was authored by the Heritage Foundation to gut progress toward equity. The end goal appears to be to turn the machinery of government and the basic definition of civil rights upside down to protect the powerful and undermine those merely seeking fair access to opportunity to achieve the American Dream. But fair housing, fair lending, and anti-discrimination obligations are enshrined in the Constitution and civil rights laws. The EOs cannot change that.
The White House’s executive actions are likely illegal, and organizations that follow these EOs may risk violating civil rights and other laws.
Resources
NFHA’s Vice President of Fair Lending Maureen Yap recently presented on the administration’s attacks on vulnerable communities. View the full presentation.
Project 2025 Background Documents
The National Fair Housing Alliance has prepared several fact sheets to explain the harm Project 2025 would do in the efforts to achieve equity, particularly in housing and lending