press release Thursday. “Unfortunately, transgender and gender-nonconforming people report more instances of housing instability and homelessness than cisgender people.
Today, we are taking a critical step in affirming HUD’s commitment that no person be denied access to housing or other critical services because of their gender identity.
HUD is open for business for all.”Donald Trump’s administration, in which HUD was led by the homophobic and transphobic Ben Carson, had refused to fully implement the Equal Access Rule put in place by President Barack Obama’s administration and had proposed changes to it that would have enabled anti-trans discrimination.The proposed rule, announced by Carson last June, sought to allow single-sex or.