Back in the United States, fair housing advocates are planning to sue the Department of Housing and Urban Development and its Secretary Ben Carson for suspending 2015 rules that require communities receiving federal housing dollars to work toward desegregation. Carson suspended the Obama-era rule in January, after repeatedly calling desegregation “failed socialist experiments.” Despite the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act, communities across the United States remain heavily segregated, and landlords and mortgage companies still practice widespread racial discrimination.