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 CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS APPLAUD campaign launched by americans for financial reform
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A group of prominent civil rights organization, including the National Fair Housing Alliance, have banded together to support the launch of the financial reform effort by Americans for Financial Reform. Americans for Financial Reform’s broad array of financial experts and advocates are joining together in an unprecedented campaign to reform our financial system and rebuild our economy.
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 2009 Fair Housing Trends Report
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The National Fair Housing Alliance has released its 2009 Fair Housing Trends Report, “Fair Housing Enforcement: Time for a Change." The report found that housing discrimination in the nation has spiked for two reasons: the worsening foreclosure crisis and internet advertising that violates fair housing laws.
Fair housing complaints handled by private groups jumped by 17 percent from the previous year to 20,173. This amounts to 66 percent of all national complaints. In 2008, HUD handled only 2,123 fair housing complaints, state and local agencies only 8,429, and the Justice Department only 33 cases. The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status and disability. It also covers all housing transactions and services, including advertising, rentals, sales, lending, and insurance.
Click here to read the report.
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 NATIONAL COMMISSION ON FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY RELEASE “THE FUTURE OF FAIR HOUSING”
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 The National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity released "The Future of Fair Housing," a comprehensive report that details the findings of a six-month-long, cross-country investigation into the state of fair housing in America.
Forty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968, the Commission was convened to travel across the country to collect information and hear testimony about the nature and extent of illegal housing discrimination, its connection with government policy and practice, and its effect on our communities.
The bipartisan commission is recommending the establishment of an independent enforcement agency that will rigorously pursue fair housing enforcement.
Click here to view the executive summary (PDF), or click here to view the entire report (PDF).
Click here to view the main page of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
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| Fair Housing and Civil Rights Groups Announce Racial Discrimination Lawsuit against HUD and Louisiana Recovery Authority
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Civil rights and fair housing groups filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and the Louisiana Recovery Authority. The suit alleges that the Road Home, Louisiana’s Hurricane Katrina recovery program, discriminates against African-American homeowners in New Orleans.
The Road Home, an $11 billion federally-funded program, is the largest housing redevelopment program in U.S. history. The suit is being filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of five individuals representing a class of more than 20,000 African-American homeowners and two fair housing organizations, the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center and the National Fair Housing Alliance.
Click here to view press release and additional documents
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| Segregation: the rising costs for america
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 Segregation: The Rising Costs for America documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant disparities in access to good jobs, quality education, homeownership attainment and asset accumulation between minority and non-minority households.
Segregation was edited by James H. Carr and Nandinee K. Kutty and sponsored by the National Fair Housing Alliance.
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 NEW PSA CAMPAIGN
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HUD Secretary Donovan and National Fair Housing Alliance Roll Out Media Campaign
HUD and Fair Housing Group Partner to Fight Foreclosures and Discrimination
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| Predatory Lending
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Helping Consumers Fight Predatory Lending
 NFHA's public education campaign that provides consumers with the information they need and the right questions to ask mortgage lenders when they are navigating the loan process.
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| Former congressman & HUD Secretary Jack Kemp Has Passed Away at 73
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