Over the past year, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been the subject of several federal lawsuits alleging that, under the second Trump Administration, the agency has systematically deprioritized its enforcement of laws under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). […] Josh Dubensky, manager of housing policy at SAGE, a New York-based organization that offers resources and services to LGBTQ+ seniors, says that EAR has remained by the wayside specifically because it — in part — protects transgender individuals.
“HUD is going after the EAR because it is particularly important to the trans community,” Dubensky says. “We’ve tried to highlight that the rule helps everyone, and that, if HUD did succeed in repealing it, heterosexual families would be hurt as well. HUD doesn’t have any evidence to back up the need to repeal it. Despite what the Trump administration may want people to believe, there have not been reports of the trans community inflicting sexual violence when accessing shelters, but we do see high instances of violence against the trans community when they’re forced into shelters against their gender identity.”
Click here to read. This piece was originally published by Tax Credit Advisor on April 8, 2026.
