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Oct. 21—WILKES-BARRE — Attorney General Michelle Henry has joined a coalition of 19 state Attorneys General defending the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Discriminatory ...
Under the Obama Administration, in July 2015 HUD promulgated the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule pursuant to the Fair Housing Act.It requires cities and towns that receive Federal money for any housing or urban development related purpose to examine whether there are any barriers to fair housing, housing patterns or practices that promote bias based on any protected class under the ...
There have been calls for HUD to use disparate impact as a measure of housing discrimination. HUD's disparate impact rule was strengthened in 2013 and upheld in a court case in 2015. However, in 2020, HUD issued its final disparate impact rule, which shifted the burden of proof of discrimination to the victims of housing discrimination. [18]
If we take the 80% rule to apply via the odds ratio, this implies that the threshold odds ratio for assuming discrimination is 1.25 – the other measures of effect size are therefore: =, =, =, (>) = This implies that discrimination is presumed to exist if 0.4% of the variation in outcomes is explained and there is a 0.123 standard deviation ...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that it will change a rule that counts service-related disability benefits as income, often excluding veterans from housing ...
The man, who lived at the property since 2019 with his minor child, filed the complaint for HUD alleging discrimination based on race, color, and national origin for being from the Dominican Republic.
[7] State laws banning source of income discrimination vary widely with some including protections for tenants using section 8 housing vouchers and some not. [8] Advocates, such as the NAACP, argue renters have been unfairly denied usage of their housing voucher and that acceptance of housing vouchers leads to more diverse communities. [9]
The federal HUD complaint, filed in 2022, alleges civil rights violations and discrimination in the city’s selected site for a desalination plant. The federal HUD complaint, filed in 2022 ...