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Presidential Memorandum

Federal Leadership of Fair Housing

This memorandum directs federal agencies to affirmatively further fair housing, establishes a Cabinet-level President's Fair Housing Council, and revokes Executive Order 12259. It expands protections to disabled persons and families with children, mandates HUD program reviews, and directs action against mortgage lending discrimination.

Federal Register 59 FR 8513
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Impact dates

  1. Agency heads to negotiate memoranda of understanding with HUD Secretary

  2. Development of metropolitan area pilot program

  3. HUD program review to assure equal opportunity and economic self-sufficiency

Market exposure

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Sectors

Banking & financeOther industrial

Mechanisms

ProcurementSubsidy / incentive

Role pressure

  • AdverseDomestic producer — Mortgage lenders, secondary mortgage market participants, and property insurers face new regulatory definitions of discriminatory practices and aggressive enforcement
  • MixedProject developer — Federally assisted housing providers face new requirements to affirmatively further fair housing but may benefit from pilot program subsidies; realtors and housing providers called upon to assist

Geographies

US

Illustrative public companies

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MMM3MBACBank of AmericaBLKBlackRockCATCaterpillarFCXFreeport-McMoRanGEVGE VernovaGSGoldman SachsHONHoneywellHSBCHSBCJPMJPMorgan ChaseSPYSPDR S&P 500 ETF

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Key directives

  • Revoke Executive Order 12259
  • Expand Executive Order 11063 to cover disabled persons and families with children
  • Direct HUD Secretary to review all HUD programs for equal opportunity and economic self-sufficiency
  • Direct agency heads to negotiate memoranda of understanding with HUD Secretary
  • Establish President's Fair Housing Council with specified Cabinet members and financial regulators
  • Direct development of metropolitan area pilot program promoting fair housing choice
  • Direct HUD Secretary and Attorney General to exercise national leadership to end discrimination in mortgage lending, secondary mortgage marketing, and property insurance
  • Direct HUD Secretary to issue regulations defining discriminatory practices in lending and insurance
  • Direct HUD Secretary and Attorney General to aggressively enforce fair housing laws

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Revocation of Executive Order 12259
  • Establishment of President's Fair Housing Council
  • Expansion of Executive Order 11063 protections

Near term (90d)

  • HUD program review for equal opportunity
  • Negotiation of interagency memoranda of understanding
  • Development of pilot program for metropolitan areas

Long term

  • Implementation of metropolitan area fair housing pilot programs
  • Regulatory action on mortgage lending discrimination
  • Potential program revisions and new initiatives from Council

Risks & tensions

  • Vague timing: no specific deadlines for program reviews, MOUs, or pilot program development
  • Voluntary cooperation mechanism may weaken enforcement: document emphasizes 'voluntary cooperation' alongside enforcement
  • Jurisdictional complexity: pilot program requires coordination across federal, state, local, and private actors
  • Tension between economic self-sufficiency goals and assisted housing expansion
  • Banking regulatory overlap: multiple federal banking agencies with independent statutory authority must coordinate with HUD
Presidential Memorandum: Federal Leadership of Fair Housing · Executive Orders