Debra Kamin

In Arkansas, the attorney general could ostensibly decide to sue this community if he decides that it is not in line with the law.

As of this week, he says he is still looking into it and his office will not comment further.

Okay.

The second guardrail is at the local level.

They are local fair housing nonprofits.

Prior to the Trump administration, they existed all over the country, and they were groups that worked in tandem with the federal government to help people who believe they've been discriminated against.

But those groups have lost a ton of funding over the past couple years.

They've lost grants, and they're just operating on barely a shoestring at this point.

The last guardrail is the Fair Housing Office within the Housing and Urban Development Office, HUD, in the U.S.

government.

That is the agency that has always acted as the police force to make sure that laws are followed.

Explain what you mean by that.

Essentially, the fair housing laws in the U.S.,

only work if they're enforced.

Of course, like any law.

The Office of Fair Housing within HUD has always acted as the enforcement arm that keeps people in check and keeps them from discriminating.

They have lawyers who work there, they break lawsuits, they make sure that if people say they've been discriminated against, those claims are investigated and people who are found to be discriminating are held accountable.

That office has been gutted significantly since the beginning of the Trump administration.

Doge cuts cost federal offices about 10% of their staff across the board, but at the Fair Housing Office and HUD, their staff has been reduced by over 70%.

They've really been gutted.