CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS COMMEND TOP MORTGAGE LENDERS AND INDUSTRY LEADERS FOR URGING HUD TO RECONSIDER DISPARATE IMPACT RULE

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Civil rights groups are commending mortgage lenders and industry leaders that are advocating for HUD to refrain from issuing a final Disparate Impact rule.These organizations are also renewing their own push for the agency to pull a proposal that they say would gut longstanding civil rights protections for addressing systemic racism in housing. Civil rights groups are citing the unprecedented national attention on racial injustice as reason to halt moving forward on the rule.