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There are laws to protect people from discrimination in buying, renting and living in their homes. By Debra Kamin A federal fair-housing law prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, ...

Christopher Poulos was offered the chance to work for the Obama administration during his third year of law school in 2015. Although he had previously been convicted of a federal felony, he was ...

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 — one of the most challenging and in some ways the crowning achievements of the Civil Rights revolution — became law 50 years ago. In this era of hyperpartisanship, it is ...

Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair and stable housing. When Martin Luther King, Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle ...

For both multifamily operators and residents, fair housing issues are a top concern. Policies are constantly evolving, making compliance particularly challenging. During a webinar moderated by MHN ...

The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is the nation’s largest nonprofit fair housing organization, leading investigations, enforcement, advocacy, and research to advance equal housing opportunity.

A few weeks ago, Brooke Kirkpatrick was panicked about being forced to leave her family's apartment in Willoughby, Ohio. Her younger child, who's 3, has nonverbal autism, and neighbors had repeatedly ...

Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise. By Debra Kamin Debra Kamin reviewed dozens ...

The last thing homebuyers and sellers expect to encounter on their real estate journey is discrimination. But until 1968, unethical practices in real estate prevented thousands of people from renting, ...

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The latest shutdown layoffs at HUD target fair housing investigators around the country. Critics say that'll make it hard to enforce the fair housing laws Congress has passed. Housing and Urban ...