And on February 8, 2013, HUD issued its final disparate-impact rule, codifying the practice as legal under the Fair Housing Act.
Under the Housing Act 2004 authorities have an obligation to identify sites suitable for the Gypsy and traveller community in a particular area.
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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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Under the terms of the Housing Act 2004, local authorities must assess the accommodation needs of gypsies and travellers and identify where new pitches should be located.
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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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.
When are we going to get a change in the law so that rent-paying, law-abiding tenants get reasonable notice following repossession (e.g. a minimum of 2 months notice, the same as under Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988)?
Congress passed the Clergy Housing Allowance Clarification Act of 2002 and Warren and the IRS agreed to withdraw the case.
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Apartments in Harlem to visit the first Section 8 multi-family housing property to receive Recovery Act funding through the Green Retrofit Program from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Identical language was passed into law in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.
His motion encourages the Scottish government to remove the limitations on the right to buy contained in the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010.
Along with our efforts to unfreeze credit and stabilize the housing market, the Recovery Act helped to do this, and it's one of the main reasons our economy has gone from shrinking by 6 percent to growing by nearly 6 percent.
Congress had seen its earlier efforts to incentivize the investment of corporate resources in the development of low-income housing, including the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) and the passive-loss provision in the Economic Recovery Act of 1981, fail.
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The bill is called the FHA Housing Stabilization and Home Owner Retention Act, and what it does is to take people who are in trouble, and then it will buy those mortgages from the lenders at below market value, at what they call - I think it's called the short payment.
"Housing was one of the fundamental parts of the Public Health Act in 1848, and here we are 150 years on still talking about housing, " he added.
For his next act, he correctly predicted the housing bubble.
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Many of our economic actions, our interventions, whether it's housing, financial markets, certainly the Recovery Act as we're talking about today, along with actions of the Fed, have certainly helped to pull the economy back from the brink, such that the macro-economy is in a much better place than it was.
And here in New York, the Recovery Act is allowing the weatherization of public housing projects as it is all over the country.
The Helping Families Save Their Homes Act advances the goals of our existing housing plan by providing assistance to responsible homeowners and preventing avoidable foreclosures.
In particular, if lower-end housing prices are now making the strongest gains, people looking to enter the housing market for the first time should prepare to act.
Participants also attended ten different technical assistance workshops that addressed civil rights, economic development, health disparities, the Affordable Care Act, and senior, education, housing, labor, and immigration issues.
Some of the changes, which will affect those who work and live in council or housing association homes, will start in April under the Welfare Reform Act.
The minister was leading a debate on the UK government's Welfare Reform Act which will replace a range of other benefits, including housing benefit, with a single universal credit.
However, it was massive government support for the housing industry through the mortgage deduction, rules such as the Community Reinvestment Act, and a multitude of subsidy programs that created the property bubble which burst so disastrously in 2008.
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But it really goes through laying out not just the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but what the Federal Reserve did, all of the policies for financial stability, our housing program.
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