Massachusetts Fair Housing Center

Fair housing advocates have filed a complaint in Massachusetts, challenging the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.As reported by The New York Times, HUD is in the process of making significant changes to a grant program that has helped fund fair housing enforcement efforts throughout the country.According to the head of the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, Vineeth Hemavathi of Longmeadow, those program changes include significant cuts and translate to far less support for groups like his, with some even likely to shutter as a result.

Among the major cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in its just concluded term was a housing discrimination case from Texas. The court upheld the…