fair housing act
Rental equality law
The Fair Housing Act is U.S. federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or familial status.
Passed in 1968, it bars landlords, sellers, and lenders from refusing housing or offering different terms based on these protected characteristics.
The landlord's refusal to rent to families with children violated the Fair Housing Act.
- leaseTemporary use contract
- protected classesLegally shielded identity categories
- segregationForced separation by group
- 1968Volatile year of upheaval
- rent controlHousing price regulation
systemic racism · source of income · Americans with Disabilities Act · reasonable accommodation · disparate impact · civil rights era · gentrification · tenant screening · displacement · HUD · real estate agent · property law · tenant · complaint · eviction · landlord · disability · mortgage
- Social Policysocial welfare, welfare reform, public assistance, social security, social insurance
fair housing actJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
racial covenants · redlining · segregation laws · housing discrimination · mortgage discrimination
fair housing actresidential segregation
Separation of neighborhoods by group
fair housing actresidential segregation
Separation of neighborhoods by group