The Fair Housing Act is the federal law that forbids discrimination in housing based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, and family status.
Like all Fair Housing laws, the disparate impact ruling is established to give further protection to people belonging to a protected class, so they can have an equal opportunity to housing. In the case of rental housing, a landlord or property manager could be charged with a Fair Housing clai...
The Fair Housing Act and Extralegal TerrorFair Housing Acthousinghate crimecivil rights violationsegregationintegrationCopyright 2008, Trustees of Indiana University. Reprinted with permission of Indiana Law Review. This Article examines the implications the Fair Housing Act (Social Science Electronic ...
but also be sure you’re not basing your decision on bias against a protected class. TheFair Housing Actprohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or nation of origin. If it’s believed you turned down a would-be buyer for any of those...
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TheFair Housing Actis the federal law that prohibits discrimination because of a person’sprotected classwhen renting or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance or engaging in other housing-related activities. The act was originally adopted as part of the Civil Rights Act of...
The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States. To help track where we are on this journey, and to amplify success stories, in this ...
When the discovery of an old city law scuttled a New Orleans- housing project, the developer sued its title insurer seeking to collect under the policy’s zoning endorsement. In determining that the issue was covered under the policy, the court noted that a thorough abstract had apparently nev...
population and 41 percent of the African-American population already resided in states with a fair-housing law. Despite laying the political and administrative groundwork for the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, the origins and diffusion of these state laws have not received much attention from ...
Does the federal Fair Housing Act ("FHA") ban harassing statements to a minority family who has just moved into a predominantly white neighborhood? The FHA does contain an antiharassment provision (42 U.S.C. § 3617), and this certainly applies to firebombings and other types of physical ...