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  2. Housing discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Fair Housing Act was passed at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Congress passed the federal Fair Housing Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, penalties for violation at 42 U.S.C. 3631) Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 only one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  3. Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity - Wikipedia

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    The Fair Housing Act: Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or ...

  4. How the ‘long and stormy’ fight for Fair Housing Act took MLK ...

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    The proposed “fair housing” legislation prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of housing based on race, religion, color or national origin.

  5. Housing nonprofit alleges widespread discrimination against ...

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    The Section 8 program, named after a section of the federal Housing Act, is one of the U.S. government’s most powerful tools to keep rental housing affordable and to fight overcrowding and ...

  6. Civil Rights Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    The 1968 Fair Housing Act is a federal act in the United States intended to protect the buyer or renter of a dwelling from seller or landlord discrimination. Its primary prohibition makes it unlawful to refuse to sell, rent to, or negotiate with any person because of that person's inclusion in a protected class . [ 57 ]

  7. LGBTQ homebuyers: Know your rights under state and federal law

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    Housing discrimination is the act of treating or acting differently towards residential buyers or renters or homeowners solely because of physical or biological features, including their race ...

  8. Housing segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The most comprehensive federal fair housing act of its time, this piece of legislation mandated fair housing as a national policy and restricted discriminatory practices. Specifically, discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was prohibited in the rental, sale, financing, and brokerage of housing or housing ...

  9. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that "it will administer and enforce the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and ...