第一巡回上诉法院驳回政府请求 HUD公平住房拨款计划不得按原方案改造
波士顿（Boston）——美国第一巡回上诉法院10月19日大体驳回联邦政府的请求，维持地区法官 Myong Joun 今年8月作出的命令，阻止住房与城市发展部（U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD）按原方案改造公平住房倡议计划（Fair Housing Initiatives Program）。据路透社报道，该计划设立于1987年，长期向全美100多家非营利机构发放小额拨款，支持公平住房执法与教育工作。
按 HUD 原定方案，在国会为该计划拨款的5,600万美元中，将有4,600万美元只以5笔大额拨款发出，其中一笔2,500万美元拨给一所法学院；而历史惯例是发放100多笔拨款，每笔介于7.5万美元至42.5万美元之间，分发给100多家非营利机构。马萨诸塞州公平住房中心等原告就此提起诉讼。
第一巡回上诉法院三人合议庭表示，政府未能证明 Joun 法官在颁发禁制令时越权行事，因此维持原命令；合议庭仅解除其中一项涉及2025财年发出拨款通知的要求，理由是该要求已因国会延期而失去意义，其涵盖拨款的到期日已延至2027年9月30日。本案为 Massachusetts Fair Housing Center v. HUD，第一巡回案号 26-2084。
First Circuit Blocks Trump Administration Overhaul of HUD Fair Housing Grant Program
Boston — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on October 19 largely denied a request by the federal government and upheld an August order by U.S. District Judge Myong Joun blocking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from carrying out its planned overhaul of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program. According to Reuters, the program, created in 1987, has long made small grants to more than 100 nonprofit organizations nationwide to support fair-housing enforcement and education.
Under HUD's plan, $46 million of the $56 million Congress appropriated for the program would have been awarded in just five large grants, including $25 million to a single law school. Historically, the program has made more than 100 grants of between $75,000 and $425,000 each, spread across more than 100 nonprofits. The Massachusetts Fair Housing Center and other plaintiffs sued to stop the change.
A three-judge First Circuit panel said the government had not shown that Judge Joun exceeded his authority in issuing the injunction, and left it in place. The panel lifted only one element of the order, a requirement concerning a fiscal year 2025 funding notice, calling it moot because Congress extended the relevant funding deadline to September 30, 2027. The case is Massachusetts Fair Housing Center v. HUD, First Circuit No. 26-2084.
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