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  2. Housing discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Housing discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Housing discrimination refers to patterns of discrimination that affect a person's ability to rent or buy housing. This disparate treatment of a person on the housing market can be based on group characteristics or on the place where a person lives.

  4. Right to housing - Wikipedia

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    Recommendation on the implementation of the right to housing, 2009; Housing Rights: The Duty to Ensure Housing for All, 2008 "No one should have to be homeless – adequate housing is a right", 2007; Interpretation and application of Article 31 of RESC//Digest of the Case Law of the European Committee on Social Rights, 2008. pp. 169–173, 349 ...

  5. How the ‘long and stormy’ fight for Fair Housing Act took MLK ...

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    On Jan. 19, 1968, King traveled to Kansas City, where a fair housing ordinance had passed, and met with local civil rights leaders such as Chester Owens and the trailblazing journalist Helen T ...

  6. Housing segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The most comprehensive federal fair housing act of its time, this piece of legislation mandated fair housing as a national policy and restricted discriminatory practices. Specifically, discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was prohibited in the rental, sale, financing, and brokerage of housing or housing ...

  7. Dear America, it’s time to fulfill the promises of the Fair ...

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    Over the years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and local fair housing organizations have received record-breaking levels of reported housing discrimination complaints each year ...

  8. Blockbusting - Wikipedia

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    The Fair Housing Act of 1968 established federal causes of action against blockbusting, including illegal real estate broker claims that non-white people had or were going to move into a neighborhood, and so devalue the properties. The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity was

  9. HUD charges Manchester landlord with retaliation in eviction ...

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    Oct. 13—A Manchester landlord and property manager have been charged with violating the Fair Housing Act by attempting to evict a tenant after a complaint was filed against them, according to ...