{"id":16903,"date":"2026-01-22T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:44:19","slug":"trump-admin-removes-biden-era-dei-from-the-housing-appraisal-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=16903","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Removes Biden-Era DEI from the Housing Appraisal Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Under the Biden administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) forced racial preferencing into property appraisals, injecting DEI into America\u2019s housing industry. Now, the Trump administration is taking action to correct this discrimination.\n<\/p>\n

Who is praying on the wall?<\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

From the New York Post:\n<\/p>\n

Under former President Joe Biden, HUD used\u00a0disparate impact theory\u00a0\u2014 the idea that a neutral policy has a disproportionately negative effect on underrepresented minorities \u2014 to impose race-based policies on the Appraisal Foundation, a nonprofit entity authorized by Congress to set qualifications for property appraisers.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cProperty appraisals are an integral component of helping Americans realize the dream of homeownership,\u201d\u00a0HUD Secretary Scott Turner\u00a0said in a statement. \u201cBut the Biden Administration weaponized the Fair Housing Act to inject DEI into the appraisal industry, focusing on illegal race preferences rather than ensuring every American has equal access to quality, affordable housing.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, HUD is ending the politicalization of property appraisals to restore fairness and equality to civil rights enforcement and housing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Biden, HUD applied \u201cdisparate impact theory\u201d on the Appraisal Foundation (TAF), a nonprofit authorized by Congress to set qualifications for property appraisers. This theory asserts that neutral policies have negative impacts on \u201cunderrepresented minorities, meaning that policies should be crafted to favor these groups over others.\n<\/p>\n

According to Craig Trainor, Assistant Secretary of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO), Biden\u2019s FHEO found there to be a disproportionate amount of white people in the appraisal industry. Instead of viewing this as a coincidence, the FHEO viewed this as a \u201cproblem to which it would provide a coercive government solution.\u201d It also suggested that the apprenticeship model historically used to train appraisers \u201cperpetuates racial homogeneity in the appraisal profession.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The Biden administration, however, never shared findings proving racial discrimination in the industry. The Trump administration also confirmed there was never any evidence of racial discrimination, which is why it canceled the \u201cconciliation agreement\u201d that saw TAF funding DEI initiatives.\n<\/p>\n

This is yet another way in which the Biden administration disrupted our federal government by needlessly inserting divisive DEI ideology. Let\u2019s thank God for the reversal of this, and let\u2019s pray that all DEI inserted into our government would be rooted out!\n<\/p>\n

Share your praises and prayers below!<\/h4>\n

(Excerpt from the New York Post. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America \u2013 Scott Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=160959013)
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Under the Biden administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) forced racial preferencing into property appraisals, injecting DEI into America\u2019s housing industry. Now, the Trump administration is taking action to correct this discrimination. Who is praying on the wall? \u00a0 From the New York Post: Under former President Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1669,5302,4244,834,3083,3366,5301,174],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayer","tag-admin","tag-appraisal","tag-bidenera","tag-dei","tag-housing","tag-industry","tag-removes","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}