Justice for the Fair Housing Three!
Congressional Leaders
While some federal workers are returning to work after the longest government shutdown in American history (and the third under Trump’s leadership), others are still on administrative leave or permanently laid off. Regardless, federal workers are holding the line within the calculated chaos.
Most recently, civil rights attorneys at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a whistleblower complaint outlining how HUD Secretary Scott Turner–under the guidance of billionaire champions like Donald Trump and Russell Vought– is dismantling civil-rights enforcement, violating federal law, and endangering the public. The whistleblowers were promptly fired from their positions at HUD on September 29, 2025. Just two months earlier, a Supervisor from the same team was fired a week after raising concerns that the Administration’s actions were illegal.
The Fair Housing Three are raising the alarm because vulnerable members of our communities are being left without basic mechanisms to protect them from discrimination by landlords, real estate agents, lenders and corporate investors. Preventing the Fair Housing Three from fulfilling their oath of service and holding HUD hostage to Trump’s anti-DEI crusade puts veterans, people with disabilities, domestic violence survivors, and low-wage workers of color at risk.
Federal workers serve the public, not politicians or billionaires. They are risking their livelihoods to protect communities from the damage accelerated by the Trump regime. Now, we’re asking you to stand with them.
No worker deserves to be fired for speaking up. Not Starbucks baristas organizing for a fair contract, immigrant workers fighting wage theft, Amazon warehouse workers demanding safe workplaces, or federal workers protecting our civil rights.
Sign our petition demanding Justice for the Fair Housing Three:
Congress must do their jobs to hold HUD Secretary Scott Turner accountable to the public.
Allow the Fair Housing Three do their jobs! Rehire and reinstate HUD whistleblowers.
Stop political interference and restore HUD’s ability to fulfill its mission to protect communities from discrimination.
We’ll hand deliver your signature with local partners–ensuring your solidarity is loud and clear– to key congressional leaders across the country like Tim Scott (R-SC), Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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As my community continues to recover from the longest government shutdown in American history, it’s more important than ever that you allow federal workers to fulfill their oaths to serve the public.
Prior to the shutdown, civil rights attorneys at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a whistleblower complaint outlining how HUD Secretary Scott Turner–under the guidance of billionaire champions like Donald Trump and Russell Vought– is dismantling civil-rights enforcement, violating federal law, and endangering the public. The whistleblowers were promptly fired from their positions at HUD on September 29, 2025. Just two months earlier, a Supervisor from the same team was fired a week after raising concerns that the Administration’s actions were illegal.
The troubling actions include:
- A 70% reduction in staff within HUD’s Office of Fair Housing (OFH), has left the Department’s civil rights attorneys unable to process even the most urgent cases.
- A verbal gag order barring HUD civil rights lawyers from communication with the DOJ and external partners, halting over 115 discrimination cases already in progress.
- Undermining of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) by delaying or outright cancelling millions in Congressionally mandated grants for community-based fair housing enforcement.
- The shutdown of HUD’s trauma-informed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) branch, stripping critical protections from survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The Fair Housing Three are raising the alarm because vulnerable members of our communities are being left without basic mechanisms to protect them from discrimination by landlords, real estate agents, lenders and corporate investors. Preventing the Fair Housing Three from fulfilling their oath of service and holding HUD hostage to Trump’s anti-DEI crusade puts veterans, people with disabilities, domestic violence survivors, and low-wage workers of color at risk.
No worker deserves to be fired for speaking up. Not Starbucks baristas organizing for a fair contract, immigrant workers fighting wage theft, Amazon warehouse workers demanding safe workplaces, or federal workers protecting our civil rights.
I am joining a nationwide coalition of working people to demand that you take the immediate actions:
- Hold HUD Secretary Scott Turner accountable to the public with the fullest extent of your powers.
- Rehire and reinstate HUD whistleblowers. Allow the Fair Housing Three do their jobs of protecting the most vulnerable in our communities!
- Stop political interference and restore HUD’s ability to fulfill its mission, including the immediate reversal of reassigned Fair Housing attorneys who are now forced to defend the agency against lawsuits instead of protecting people from discrimination.