HUD opens discrimination investigation into a Muslim development in Texas. (Thanks to Haadi for this one)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development said on Friday that it has opened an investigation into a large housing development centered by a mosque outside Dallas, the latest effort by the Trump administration to stop the project amid attacks by G.O.P. officials.
The development, called the Meadow and formerly known as EPIC City, is backed by members of the East Plano Islamic Center and was the subject of a series of investigations last year by Republican state officials, including the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, and the state’s hard-line attorney general, Ken Paxton.
Critics of the project have accused its developers of violating fair housing and financial laws, and creating a community that would discriminate against non-Muslims. Its backers say they have broken no laws.
