Race-segregated dorms? HUD investigating universities over ‘identity-based’ communities

The Trump administration is investigating a pair of federally funded universities accused of violating civil rights laws over their race-specific student-housing communities.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst, which received over $322 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2024, is home to five of what it calls “Defined Residential Communities” — “communities in residence halls where students can live with hall mates who share similar interests, backgrounds, and identifies.”

‘Re-create Jim Crow in the name of bizarro social justice.’

They are as follows: the Asian/Asian-American DRC; the disability DRC; the so-called “Latinx” DRC for Hispanics; the “Harambee” DRC for blacks; and the “Spectrum” DRC for non-straights.

The University of Nevada, Reno — whose active federal awards as of summer 2025 totaled over $520 million — has a similar offering