1.  Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), Pub. L. No. 90-284, 82 Stat. 73 (1968).

2.  National Association of Realtors®. 2025 Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America. Washington, DC: NAR, March 17, 2025. https://cms.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/2025-03/2025-snapshot-of-race-and-home-buying-in-america-03-17-2025.pdf.

3.  Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015).

4.  National Low Income Housing Coalition. “Impacts of Trump Administration Executive Orders.” NLIHC, January 2025. https://nlihc.org/resource/impacts-trump-administration-executive-orders.

5.  U.S. Congress. House. Restoring Fair Housing Protections Eliminated by Trump Act of 2025. H.R. 3086, 119th Cong., 1st sess. Introduced April 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3086/text.

6.  Collier, Anna and Zoe Middleton. “President Trump’s 100 Days of Federal Housing Policy Chaos.” Union of Concerned Scientists Blog, April 30, 2025. https://blog.ucs.org/zoe-middleton/president-trumps-100-days-of-federal-housing-policy-chaos/.

7.  National Fair Housing Alliance. “Leading Civil Rights Groups Condemn the Latest Executive Order Attempting to Roll Back Protections.” NFHA, July 25, 2025. https://nationalfairhousing.org/leading-civil-rights-groups-condemn-the-latest-executive-order-attempting-to-roll-back-protections/.

8.  Trump, Donald J. Executive Order No. 14281: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy. April 23, 2025. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/.

9.  Texas Housers. “Fair Housing Protections Promised the Fulfillment of American Freedom, Liberty, and Justice for All. The Trump Administration Is Obliterating Them.” May 13, 2025. https://texashousers.org/2025/05/13/affh-rule-trump-fair-housing-removed/.

10.  Thomson, Molly and Maryah Zeigler. “How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws.” Shelterforce, May 15, 2025. https://shelterforce.org/2025/05/15/trump-administration-weakening-the-enforcement-of-fair-housing/.

11.  HousingWire Staff. “The List of All Trump’s Actions in 2025 That Impacted Housing.” HousingWire, updated January 2, 2026. https://www.housingwire.com/articles/updated-list-of-all-trumps-actions-that-impact-housing/.

12.  Sommerfield, Lori and Chris Willis. “HUD’s New Direction in Fair Housing Act Enforcement and Rescission of Certain Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Guidance.” Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor, September 29, 2025. https://www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2025/09/huds-new-direction-in-fair-housing-act-enforcement-and-rescission-of-certain-office-of-fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity-guidance/.

13.  National Fair Housing Alliance. The State of Equitable Homeownership 2025. Washington, DC: NFHA, 2025. https://nationalfairhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-State-of-Equitable-Homeownership-2025-FINAL.pdf.

14.  Alliance for Housing Justice. “Statement: Housing Implications of Trump’s Disparate Impact Executive Order.” April 30, 2025. https://www.allianceforhousingjustice.org/post/disparate-impact-order-statement.

15. U.S. Congress, House, Restoring Fair Housing Protections Eliminated by Trump Act of 2025, H.R. 3086, 119th Cong., 1st sess., Findings §2(2) (introduced April 2025), https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3086/text.

16. Texas Housers, “Fair Housing Protections Promised the Fulfillment of American Freedom, Liberty, and Justice for All. The Trump Administration Is Obliterating Them,” May 13, 2025, https://texashousers.org/2025/05/13/affh-rule-trump-fair-housing-removed/.

17. Molly Thomson and Maryah Zeigler, “How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws,” Shelterforce, May 15, 2025, https://shelterforce.org/2025/05/15/trump-administration-weakening-the-enforcement-of-fair-housing/.

18. Donald J. Trump, Executive Order No. 14281: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, April 23, 2025, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/.

19. Lori Sommerfield and Chris Willis, “HUD’s New Direction in Fair Housing Act Enforcement and Rescission of Certain Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Guidance,” Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor, September 29, 2025, https://www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2025/09/huds-new-direction-in-fair-housing-act-enforcement-and-rescission-of-certain-office-of-fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity-guidance/.

20. Anna Collier and Zoe Middleton, “President Trump’s 100 Days of Federal Housing Policy Chaos,” Union of Concerned Scientists Blog, April 30, 2025, https://blog.ucs.org/zoe-middleton/president-trumps-100-days-of-federal-housing-policy-chaos/.

21. National Fair Housing Alliance, The State of Equitable Homeownership 2025 (Washington, DC: NFHA, 2025), https://nationalfairhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-State-of-Equitable-Homeownership-2025-FINAL.pdf.