Diversity push adds federal muscle, new directives show

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's strategy to foster diversity in the nation's suburbs by using Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations now involves two other federal agencies: the Education and Transportation departments. That development emerged this week from a "Dear Colleague" letter outlining a set of wide-ranging policies that builds on last summer's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule from HUD. That directive presented a new interpretation of the 1968 Fair Hous

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's strategy to foster diversity in the nation's suburbs by using Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations now involves two other federal agencies: the Education and Transportation departments. That development emerged this week from a "Dear Colleague" letter outlining a set of wide-ranging policies that builds on last summer's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule from HUD. That directive presented a new interpretation of the 1968 Fair Hous…