And on February 8, 2013, HUD issued its final disparate-impact rule, codifying the practice as legal under the Fair Housing Act.
For instance, the federal Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, family status or pregnancy, and handicap.
The lawsuit flips the usual order of things, with landlords complaining that the city has violated the Fair Housing Act, instead of the other way around.
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Complicating the issue is the fact that the Fair Housing Act prohibits landlords from asking tenants to show medical records or inquiring about the nature or severity of disabilities.
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Paul case had challenged the use of statistics to prove race discrimination under the 1968 Fair Housing Act, and Justice Department officials were concerned the court could strike down the practice.
Former Vice President and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, who helped to write the Fair Housing Act, somehow heard about the case and called Mayor Coleman, a fellow Democrat, to express his concern.
In 2009, facing a likely loss in an anti-discrimination lawsuit, the county just north of New York City negotiated an agreement with the federal government designed to make Westchester's government a force for fair housing.
HUD's aggressive response is part of a broader effort in recent years to step up enforcement of fair-housing policies.
The realtors' code of ethics, he said, does require a commitment to fair-housing laws and "transparency, " or openness about all aspects of the sale's transaction.
Now that New Orleans has a shortage of homes and labour, fair-housing advocates say there is no good reason to keep salvageable public housing closed.
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Mr. Issa took the unusual step of having the committee play an audio recording allegedly of Mr. Perez speaking about efforts to get a fair-housing case removed from the Supreme Court's docket.
He also points a finger at the fact that California has no fair-share housing law.
One Saturday, 200 people arrived at 7 a.m. outside my Housing Fair in Thornton, Colorado, ready to talk health care.
"The notion of pan-Asian community is still a work in progress, " said Dennis Hayashi, director of the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, who previously served in the Clinton administration.
CDFIs, wrongly maligned as the source of the housing crisis, have a fair amount of untapped economic potential.
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The Landlord and Tenants (Private Housing) Bill 2013 aims to achieve a fair and reasonable balance between the rights of landlords and tenants.
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To be fair, many of those comparables are condos, a housing stock that typically garners slightly higher prices per square foot than coops.
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"We will launch our consultation on further reforms to housing benefit shortly, because we want the system to be fair, both to families in need and the taxpayer, " it added.
David Green, cabinet member for housing at the council, said the authority wants to be "fair to everybody".
They also want sufficient resources to be made available so that Housing Associations can buy houses and then let them to local families at a fair rent.
As the railway lines have been upgraded over the years, the price differences between rural and London housing have shrunk and as that example shows, you can actually calculate the price difference to a fair degree of accuracy.
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