The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has launched an investigation into Boston’s alleged housing discrimination, saying the city uses DEI practices to favor Black and Latino residents in violation of federal civil rights protections.

Craig Trainor, assistant secretary of HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, notified Boston Mayor Michelle Wu of the investigation into the city’s diversity, equity and inclusion housing practices — which the Trump administration believes to be a violation of the Fair Housing Act, a federal anti-discrimination law — in a Thursday letter.

“We believe the City of Boston has engaged in a social engineering project that intentionally advances discriminatory housing policies driven by an ideological commitment to DEI rather than meri

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