Federal fair housing law bans housing discrimination against prospects, applicants, and residents because of their disability as well as the disability of anyone associated with them. The disability protections were aimed at stamping out discrimination based on “misperceptions, ignorance,...
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) recently released its 2013 Fair Housing Trends Report, “Modernizing the Fair Housing Act for the 21st Century.”
The results of fair housing testing in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Va., is a call to action to increase fair housing education, outreach, advocacy, and enforcement, according to the Piedmont Housing Alliance (PHA).
A combined 56 percent of fair housing complaints filed in Illinois over the last decade involved discrimination based on race and national origin, with much of it targeted towards Latinos, according the Latino Policy Forum, an advocacy organization based in Chicago.
The Center for Housing Leadership at Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc. (HOME) recently released the 2011 Virginia Housing Statistics Snapshot, an annual report on the housing market in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Authored by Brian Koziol, HOME’s Housing Policy &...
Housing discrimination occurs frequently in Seattle, according to test results recently released by the Seattle Office for Civil Rights (SOCR). According to SOCR, more than half of all properties tested showed evidence of illegal housing discrimination.
Discriminatory online housing ads are almost always posted by people seeking roommates, and are primarily based on familial status, according to a recent study by Rigel Oliveri, an associate dean for faculty research and development and associate professor of law at the University of Missouri...
May 2011: The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) recently released its 2011 Fair Housing Trends Report, “The Big Picture: How Fair Housing Organizations Challenge Systemic and Institutionalized Discrimination.”
