I didn’t know about it either until someone posted a YouTube clip of Andrew Cuomo giving a press conference in the 90s about it.
I’m pretty sure this is why housing started to become cheap quality and built on small lots, loose loans etc etc.
https://www.globalurban.org/National_Homeownership_Strategy.pdf
That certainly qualifies. HUD was involved.
Now that I’m thinking about it bad federal housing policy could have started even sooner, when Jack Kemp ran HUD for GHW Bush.
Kemp, who I once thought could have made a good President, turned out to be a social engineering oriented imbecile who was woke before woke was invented.