Tag: fair housing act
Fair Housing 50 years later
The Fair Housing Act turned 50 this year. The charter that began with government-mandated racially-balanced communities has paved the way for today’s organically derived...
HUD joins Justice Department in nationwide initiative to combat sexual harassment in housing
Today, as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing...
HUD commemorates Fair Housing month and 50 years of the Fair Housing Act
Nearly 50 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and fair housing became law. In signing the landmark measure,...
Supreme Court takes up key housing discrimination case
There may be many reasons for a racial disparity in home loans—for example, financial qualifications—that have nothing to do with discrimination. Yet businesses routinely...
HUD’s racial agenda
Poor people who live in government housing projects tend to find their broader neighborhoods are poor, too. Many of their neighborhoods are segregated. Their...
A funny thing happened in response to my Craigslist ad
Originally, the Act precluded discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. As the years march on, the...
HUD’s race-based housing
A major goal of President Obama's second term is to use the brute force of government to reduce inequality. This played out in the struggle...
Race-based discrimination in housing market rises
In its 2003 report, the NFHA found that 30 percent of all housing discrimination complaints were race-based, followed by disability and familial status, which...
