The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Spring 2011 regulatory agenda reveals the agency has drafted a proposed rule to synchronize current standards for ascertaining when a given housing practice that has a discriminatory effect on protected classes actually violates the Fair Housing Act. However, Richard Andreano, a partner in the Washington, DC, office of law firm Patton Boggs, took issue with HUD’s reference to harmonizing existing standards “because I think you would get…