Julián Castro: Delaying HUD rule guts desegregation and affordable housing efforts

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s getting more expensive to live in Austin every day and Friday the Trump administration delayed a deadline encouraging affordable and fair housing within cities.
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro says the move effectively guts a rule the Obama administration put in place to tackle desegregation. Castro told KXAN the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing directive required cities to make a fair housing assessment to “work at