Lee Porter, a fair housing advocate for decades in New Jersey, died on July 20. Sen. Cory Booker remembered her as the ...

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.

The Fair Housing Act is the federal law that forbids discrimination in housing based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, and family status.

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 outlaws discrimination on the basis of “race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, or disability”—but it remains perfectly legal for municipalities to ...

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 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 ...

Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act became the law of the land, it’s time to pursue the Act’s promise with renewed energy and commitment as we embark on the next 50 years.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968, days after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The law, initially focused on racial discrimination, was ...

The Fair Housing Act has eliminated the most blatant and overt forms of housing discrimination that were routine a half-a-century ago. Yet our nation’s housing markets, ...

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.