The Fair Housing Act, established in 1968, is a federal law that forbids discrimination in most housing-related activities, including buying, selling, renting, orfinancing, based on race, color, sex, national origin, or religion. It has been amended to include protections against discrimination ba...
Landlords, property managers, and housing providers are required to honor the civil rights protections established under theFederal Fair Housing Act(Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968). The Fair Housing Actis the set of laws associated with anti-discrimination laws for renters. The Fair H...
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This year marks the fortieth anniversary of three major events with respect to residential racial discrimination and segregation in the United States: the enactment of the "comprehensive" Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968,...
The Fair Housing Act is a federal law that was passed in 1968. It prohibits discrimination in the buying, renting, selling or financing of housing or when seeking housing assistance. The act specifically prohibits discrimination based on race, skin color, national origin, religion, sex — includi...
People targeted by racial covenants increasingly challenged them in court and, in 1968, they were finally banned under the Fair Housing Act. But the damage had been done. Racial covenants concentrated wealth and amenities in white neighborhoods and depressed the conditions and home values in neighbor...
Fair Housing Act (FHA) of 1968 In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court deemed racially restrictive deed covenants unenforceable. Twenty years later, theFair Housing Act (FHA)was enacted. The law protects people from discrimination when they rent or buy a home, apply for a mortgage, seek housing as...
Housing lawaffordable housingfair housing lawdiscriminationsegregationThis is a book review of The Fight for Fair Housing: Causes, Consequences and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act ed. Gregory D. Squires (Iglesias, Tim
By that time, 57 percent of the U.S. 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 ...
The enactment of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 ("FHA") is a story filled with intrigue - coercion, duplicity, and back-room deals. In The Secret History of the Fair Housing Act, Professor Jonathan Zasloff provides a riveting account of the maneuvers by the various protagonists in that story...