Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following statement regarding todays Supreme Court ruling in the
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs et al. v. The Inclusive Communities Project Inc. which remanded the case back to the lower courts based on the Courts decision in this case:
Texas stands strongly against racial discrimination and sets policy true to the letter and spirit of the Fair Housing Act. Todays decision places an unfair burden on landlords lenders and developers and will ironically lead them to make their decisions based upon consideration of race.
The Administrations interpretation of federal housing law is overreaching and misguided and I am disappointed with the Supreme Courts ruling. This case however is far from over. The Court recognized the novelty of the plaintiffs claims and noted that the FHA does not prohibit actions taken for legitimate objectives. The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs acted with the legitimate objective of revitalizing neighborhoods and providing affordable fair housing when it distributed federal tax credits."
