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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.
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 ...
The Fair Housing Act is relatively wide-ranging, but it doesn’t apply in some circumstances, including transactions or leases involving for sale or for rent by owner properties and some owner ...
Housing Act of 1954: 1954: Public housing Federal: Was to provide 140,000 units of public housing with preferential treatment to families relocated for slum eradication or revitalization. Rumford Fair Housing Act: 1963: Discrimination CA: Preceded Fair Housing Act, but repealed. Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965: 1965 [definition needed ...
The Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) is a federal program that is administered by the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The FHAP program provides funding annually on a noncompetitive basis to State and local agencies that enforce fair housing laws that are substantially ...
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]
The Fair Housing Act passed in 1968 was designed to protect those who were traditionally discriminated against by housing agencies because of their race, gender, religion, familial status, and disability. [14] Some states and cities also gave homeless people equal access to housing accommodations regardless of their income.
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 ...