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Rule 10 Jul 2025 compliance, agriculture, environmental protection, usda, regulation, business and industry, administrative practice and procedure, wildlife, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, natural resources, grant programs-housing and community development, rural development, rural areas, credit, loan programs-housing and community development, loan programs, disaster assistance, renewable energy, technical assistance, endangered and threatened species, community development, water resources, dairy products, crop insurance, agricultural commodities, pesticides and pests, community facilities, soil conservation, acreage allotments, indemnity payments, loan programs-agriculture, flood plains, grazing lands

🌾USDA Ends Race and Sex-Based Preferences in Assistance Programs

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has independently determined that it will no longer employ the race- and sex-based "socially disadvantaged" designation to provide increased benefits based on race and sex in the programs at issue in this regulation. The USDA has faced a long history of litigation stemming from allegations of discrimination in the administration of its farm loan and benefit programs. However, over the past several decades, USDA has undertaken substantial efforts to redress past injustices, culminating in comprehensive settlements, institutional reforms, and compensatory frameworks. These actions collectively support the conclusion that past discrimination has been sufficiently addressed and that further race- and sex-based remedies are no longer necessary or legally justified under current circumstances.

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Rule 3 Mar 2025 compliance, puerto rico, regulations, government contracts, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, grant programs-social programs, student aid, grant programs-education, intergovernmental relations, penalties, claims, grant programs-housing and community development, housing, loan programs-housing and community development, manufactured homes, low and moderate income housing, fair housing, indians, urban development, unemployment compensation, guam, rent subsidies, hud, northern mariana islands, individuals with disabilities, pacific islands trust territory, virgin islands, community development block grants, aged, homeless, public housing, american samoa, wages, crime, social security, hiv/aids, mortgage insurance, community facilities, pets

🏘️Implications of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions

This interim final rule revises HUD's regulation governing the Fair Housing Act's mandate that the Secretary administer HUD's program and activities in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing. This interim final rule returns to the original understanding of what the statutory AFFH certification was prior to 1994--a general commitment that grantees will take active steps to promote fair housing. Grantee AFFH certifications will be deemed sufficient provided they took any action during the relevant period rationally related to promoting fair housing, such as helping eliminate housing discrimination. This interim final rule does not, however, reinstate the obligation to conduct an Analysis of Impediments or mandate any specific fair housing planning mechanism; program participants must continue to affirmatively further fair housing as and to the extent required by the Fair Housing Act.

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