Tag: Fair housing
HUD reaches agreements with Florida, Virginia and California landlords settling claims of sexual harassment...
Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced three settlements of claims involving allegations of sexual harassment totaling approximately $125,000 in...
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,...
Secretary Ben Carson’s open letter to HUD Employees
Dear Colleagues, By now, many of you may have read media accounts indicating that we’ve changed HUD’s mission statement and that these changes signal some...
Time to restore local control over zoning—and end Obama’s HUD intrusion
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing allowed HUD to halt distribution of more than $3 billion of annual community development block grants to about 1,200 counties...
Fair housing demystified
When she was 14, she became friends with Ruby, a black girl, who worked in her aunt’s hair salon in McKinney, Texas, and had...
Background check policies for apartment applicants may be illegal
“A policy or practice that denies housing to anyone with a prior arrest or any kind of criminal conviction cannot be justified,” according to...
Disparate impact: judging by the color of their skin
The question before the court was: Can you be found guilty of racial discrimination if you never engaged in policies that had any intent...
The “folly” of fair housing
These obligations are not made out of whole cloth, but were explicitly set out in the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA), which has...
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...
Housing Bill deemed most significant in a generation
Significantly, the measure represents a balanced approach to housing policy by trimming home-ownership incentives, and balancing single- family incentives with expanded rental housing incentives. Here...
Civil rights and wrongs: Fair Housing isn’t always fair
Having once prosecuted fair housing cases for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, I would be the first to tell you...
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...
Yes, no, maybe. Avoid sexual harassment and Fair Housing violations
In our legal system a person is considered innocent and it’s up to the complaining party to prove guilt. Right? This is not true...