HUD halts all enforcement of the Equal Access Rule
- Date
- Actor
- Department of Housing and Urban Development; Secretary Scott Turner
- Agency
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Type
- Guidance/memo (enforcement cessation)
Summary
Secretary Turner directed HUD to "halt any pending or future enforcement actions" under the 2016 Equal Access Rule (81 FR 64763), which had guaranteed access to HUD-funded shelters and housing consistent with a person's gender identity and barred intrusive documentation demands. HUD's announcement (HUD No. 25-026, reported Feb. 7-10, 2025) framed the change as ensuring placements "based on biological sex," permitting HUD-funded single-sex shelters to turn away transgender women from women's facilities. The 2012 Equal Access Rule's sexual-orientation/gender-identity nondiscrimination text remained formally on the books but unenforced.
Status
Enforcement halt in effect; formal rescission/rewrite proposed April 28, 2026 (see that item).
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Sources
- endhomelessness.org/resources/policy-information/huds-equal-access-rule(opens another site)
- hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-026(opens another site)
- navigatehousing.com/hud-halts-enforcement-of-equal-access-rule-what-it-means-fo…(opens another site)
Cite this action
Press Release, U.S. Dep't of Hous. & Urb. Dev., Secretary Scott Turner Halts Enforcement Actions of HUD's Gender Identity Rule (Feb. 7, 2025), https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-026.
Short form: Press Release, U.S. Dep't of Hous. & Urb. Dev., Secretary Scott Turner Halts Enforcement Actions of HUD's Gender Identity Rule (Feb. 7, 2025), https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-026.