Though the Fair Housing Act applies to most situations, there are some exemptions. For example, if a dwelling has four or fewer units and the owner lives in one of them, they are exempt from the FHA.

Although the Fair Housing Act is federal law and binding on all United States jurisdictions, Florida has its own version of the Fair Housing Act. See Sections 760.20-760.37, et. seq., Fla. Stat.

The U.S. Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, or disability.

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination but doesn’t specify the kind of discrimination. Defending itself, the state of Texas argued that the FHA is limited to intentional discrimination ...

While the persistence of housing segregation is hard to accept, it’s not hard to explain. By 1968, when the Fair Housing Act was passed, racially segregated neighborhoods were already the norm.

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 ...

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 sought to end racial discrimination in housing, but American cities remain deeply segregated. NPR's Michel Martin looks back with former Vice President Walter Mondale ...

Today, Senator Tim Kaine and the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) are convening a briefing on Capitol Hill to commemorate the 50 th Anniversary of the 1968 Fair Housing Act and discuss the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved to Chicago in 1966 to “end slums.” A week after he was assassinated in 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act, which prohibited housing ...

The Fair Housing Act was designed to protect people from discrimination when they were renting, buying or securing financing. The House passed the bill in 1966, and it then died in the Senate.

Though the Fair Housing Act applies to most situations, there are some exemptions. For example, if a dwelling has four or fewer units and the owner lives in one of them, they are exempt from the FHA.