Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says housing discrimination is once again raising an ugly head.

Bernice King warns decades of work are at risk to reduce housing inequality.The Trump administration cuts fundsIt seeks to cut funding for nonprofits that handle housing discrimination complaints for the project.

“I tremble to think of what’s going to happen – there’s still a lot of housing separation,” King, CEO of the King Center and the youngest daughter of a civil rights leader, told the Associated Press to Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. and Pastor Colletta Scott King. “It’s better than my father’s life, but in the future we may be back to where we were in the 50s and 60s.”

February, Urban Development BureauMillion-dollar grants cancelledto a nonprofit organization that handles housing discrimination complaints. The judge temporarily freezes the termination and said HUD has said it has said targeted funding awards that include diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, language.

According to HUD officials, the department supported fair housing laws and added combat discrimination in housing.There are no changes to staffingSome specific to the department have been announced.

King said the attacks on what the administration calls Day are familiar.

“For me, these are the same old historical tactics of division and conquest, in order to keep people fighting against each other, keep people separate, and keep certain classes present in society,” she said.

I’m continuing to push to end discrimination in housing

As far as she can, King said she is highlighting her father’s legacy of imposing economic equality, including speaking Thursday at Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, near Habitat for Humanity County in Seattle.

The 58-unit apartment block is located in Martin Luther King Junior Way, King County. Construction of the site begins and the units will eventually be sold to buyers at affordable prices.

Seattle Habitat CEO Brett de Antonio said King gave the building a name after giving him the opportunity to talk about the racial equity of the home.The house is the keyTo commemorate the passage of the Fair Housing Act in April.

“As well as addressing affordable housing needs across the country, we have not had a good opportunity to look at the work we had before and name the building in honor of Dr. King,” he said.

Bernice King remembers her father moving his family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without a fever in Chicago. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago and tried it out.Break through discriminatory housingBlack residents paid more in rent for worse conditions than white tenants.

Martin Luther King Jr. ran a campaign in Chicago, talking to tens of thousands of crowds around the area, leading the march to City Hall and tapering his demands to the front door. A week after he was assassinated in 1968, the Fair Housing Act was signed into law. This prohibits discrimination in housing based on race and other characteristics and creates a mechanism to resolve complaints.

She said the dream of fair and fair housing, signalled by the passage of the law, has yet to come true.

“To allow that provision to be weakened is to betray the commitment and sacrifices made to make it happen,” she said in Seattle.

Housing inequality continues today

The big contradiction of homeownershipIt continues today between black, Hispanic and white Americans, but that is just one of the inequality in housing access. The National Fair Housing Alliance has discovered that housing discrimination complaints have reachedRecords for 2023: 34,000most include rentals, and more than half are related to discrimination based on disability.

Diane Levy, a researcher at Urban Research Institute housing, said she is worried who will receive future fair housing complaints if funding for nonprofits that handle these complaints drops significantly.

“If you experience discrimination, if it’s blatant, it’s a victim,” she says, adding even the restrictions on discrimination that don’t see where you can live and whether you rent or buy a home.

Levy also noted that the administration has ended federal protections against housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Bernice King said this moment requires creativity and patience.

“People feel it’s okay to discriminate. It’s okay to restrain, suppress, deny,” she said. “It means our people who are on the side of standing up for the right thing and fighting for freedom, justice and equality, and we do more.”

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