Fair Housing Act of 1968

• Rep. Jerrold Nadler Holds a Hearing On the Enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES HOLDS A HEARING ON THE ENFORCEMENT O...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 27, 2009

• Fair Housing Act of 1968

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA) (42U.S.C.A. §§ 3601-3631) is also known as Title VIII of the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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• Racial Integration and Community Revitalization: Applying the Fair Housing Act to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit

At the heart of a debate about the future of American race, housing, and urban policy are two important lawsuits recently filed in state courts in New Jersey and Connecticut. Plaintiffs challenge the authority of their respective state housing finance agencies to fund subsidized units, with US Treasury issued tax credits, in neighborhoods of racial and social isolation. These cases seek clarification of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, parallel state fair housing provisions, the equal protection clauses of state and federal constitutions, and the meaning of the two most important state fair housing cases ever decided. Community development forces argue that the building and rebuilding of low-income housing in poor segregated neighborhoods must continue and is the only way, within the exist...

• Vanderbilt Law Review
• Vol. 58 Nbr. 6, November 2005

• Implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Discriminatory Effects Standard

Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended (Fair Housing Act or Act), prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, or financing of dwellings and in other housing-related activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin.\1\ HUD, to which Congress gave the authority and responsibility for administering the Fair Housing Act and the power to make rules implementing the Act, has long interpreted the Act to prohibit housing practices with a discriminatory effect, even where there has been no intent to discriminate. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 70921, November 16, 2011
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• Housing and Urban Development Department

• Integrate Expectations

[...] affordable housing was erected in towns that already had significant black and Hispanic populations and less- elite schools, such as Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and Ossining- which was always more of a working-class town than the tony enclave imagined in Mad Men. Since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act of 1968 into law, this type of deliberately segregationist urban planning has been illegal.

• American Prospect, The
• Vol. 20 Nbr. 8, October 2009

• The Fair Housing Act and Religious Freedom

The Fair Housing Act, passed by Congress after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of religion. The Act makes it illegal for a housing provider, public or private, to discriminate in the sale or rental of housing or in the provision of housing services on the basis of religion. Seng details how the act raises delicate issues relating to the establishment and free exercise of religion in the private and public housing markets.

• Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
• Vol. 11 Nbr. 1, October 2005

• Rochester Attorneys, Realtors Determined to Make Homeownership Possible for Everyone

April is Fair Housing Month, and this year it marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act. Although a Rochester group lost the funding for its fair housing program this year, attorneys and Realtors remain determined to help make homeownership possible for everyone. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 expanded previous laws against discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex and (as amended) handicap and family status.

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• April 10, 2008

• Irem and Naaei Develop New Fair Housing Course

The Fair Housing Act of 1968, barring discrimination practices in housing, plays an important role in the residential management industry. The Institute of Real Estate Management and the National Apartment Association Education Institute have partnered to develop a new fair housing course. "Fair Housing and Beyond" (FHS201) is a highly interactive, DVD scenario-driven course that takes students "beyond the basics" to teach the critical thinking necessary for compliance with fair housing today and in the future.

• Journal of Property Management
• Vol. 73 Nbr. 3, May 2008

• 7 CFR 3560.406 - MFH ownership transfers or sales.

...CHAPTER XXXV: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. PART 3560: DIR... requirements, and the Title VI of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. (10) A transferee must ensure...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 7: Agriculture

• Speaker Hastert Comments On 'Separate but Equal'; Joins House in Highlighting Anniversary of Brown Vs. Board of Education Decision

WASHINGTON, May 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Speaker of the House of Representatives, J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) paid tribute to the monumental history and legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education decision today as the House unanimously passed a resolution to recognize the 50th Anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. The resolution also renews the commitment to building on the legacy of the decision with a pledge to acknowledge and address the modern disparities that remain. The Brown decision set a precedent. Not just a precedent for decisions related to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and '65, or the Fair Housing Act of 1968... but a precedent for a way of life. The Brown decision set in stone that segregation in our public schools is wrong. It proved that our Constitution...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 13, 2004