The Colorado Health Foundation appreciates the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on its proposed rule: Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard. We strongly oppose the proposed changes and urge HUD to withdraw the proposed rule.
The Colorado Health Foundation is a nonprofit and nonpartisan private foundation that works statewide to advance our mission to improve the health and well-being of Coloradans. Through community engagement, research, grantmaking, and private sector investments, the Foundation aims to ensure that everyone in Colorado has what they need to be healthy. Access to affordable, safe, and high-quality housing has long been one of our priorities. We believe that housing justice exists when all Coloradans have high-quality, safe, and affordable housing that supports their health, economic well-being, and dignity; have the power to shape and achieve the housing they prefer; and have the ability to influence the policies and systems that impact them. The Foundation opposes HUD’s proposed rule because it would make it far more difficult for people experiencing various forms of discrimination to challenge the policies or practices of housing providers, governments, and businesses that have negatively impacted them