Several civil rights organizations have filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging HUD’s decision to suspend the implementation of the Small Area Fair Market Rent rule, which was adopted in November 2016 and suspended earlier this year. It is unclear at this juncture how the case will proceed.
Five organizations – the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC law firm, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Public Citizen Litigation Group– represent the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The lead plaintiff, Open Communities Alliance, is a Connecticut-based fair housing organization.
