Debra Walker v. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. The Housing Authority of the City of Dallas

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

A local public housing agency agreed to demolish certain vacant and uninhabitable units of Dallas public housing in compliance with a consent decree entered by the parties to cure racial housing segregation within the city. The planned demolitions have been stalled indefinitely, however, as a consequence of financing problems. Specifically, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a reduction in the subsidization of vacant units to a level that the local agency claims undermines its efforts to raze the condemned structures.…