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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.
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) is a provision of the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act [1] signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.The law requires that "All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and urban development (including any Federal agency having regulatory or supervisory authority over financial ...
In the United States, housing vouchers fall under Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937. Section 8 housing vouchers provide housing assistance for low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals or families. [1] The term “source of income discrimination” is used by housing advocates [2] to describe a phenomenon that is legal nationwide in the ...
In the longer term, advocates and supporters of the LGBTQ community are backing the proposed Fair and Equal Housing Act, which would amend current civil rights law to ban discrimination on the ...
It was this movement work that led to the passage and then the enactment of the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act, as amended, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex (including ...
The passage of the Act was contentious. The Fair Housing Act was meant to be a direct follow up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, however from 1966 to 1967 Congress failed to garner enough political support for its passage. At that time several states had passed their own fair housing laws and Congress was not convinced that a federal law was ...
Housing discrimination can also occur among existing tenants, who may face detrimental treatment in comparison to others for the same reasons. Housing discrimination can lead to spatial inequality and racial segregation , which, in turn, can exacerbate wealth disparities between certain groups.
While in the United States discrimination in housing is generally prohibited, the Fair Housing Act of 1968 [11] and the Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 (109 STAT. 787) [12] allow communities to restrict residency to older individuals. [13]