Friday, Aug. 23, 2024
Was Donald Trump ordered as a result of a federal lawsuit not to discriminate in housing?
A settlement to a federal lawsuit filed against Donald Trump required him not to discriminate in housing.
The U.S. Justice Department sued Trump in 1973, alleging that Trump and his company discriminated against Black people who tried to rent his thousands of New York City apartments.
Trump denied the allegations and admitted no liability.
Under the settlement, Trump was permanently prohibited from refusing to rent to people based on race, including falsely telling racial minority applicants that apartments weren’t available. He was ordered to send weekly apartment vacancy notices to the New York Urban League and to advertise to nonwhite communities that his apartments were “equal opportunity housing.”
The Justice Department called the settlement “one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated.”
Two speakers Aug. 22, 2024, at the Democratic National Convention, National Urban League president Marc Morial and former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, made the claim.
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Sources
- Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse Consent order
- Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. 1:73-01529 (E.D.N.Y.)
- NPR Decades-Old Housing Discrimination Case Plagues Donald Trump
- PBS NewsHour Marc Morial at 2024 Democratic National Convention
- PBS NewsHour WATCH: Former HUD secretary Marcia Fudge speaks at 2024 Democratic National Convention
- Washington Post Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it
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