The shift nearly eliminates the chances the department will pursue new redlining cases under the Trump administration, experts say. HUD has already slashed spending on fair housing enforcement and reassigned lawyers and other career employees once focused on it. But I can tell you it’s already dragging things to a halt,” said Sasha Samberg-Champion, special civil rights council for the nonprofit National Fair Housing Alliance and HUD’s former deputy general counsel for enforcement and fair housing under President Joe Biden. He added that officials were still working on a “full review” of fair housing enforcement procedures. The US Supreme Court affirmed in 2015 that the Fair Housing Act indeed applies to such cases.