Housing Discrimination

Disability-Related Housing Complaints Soar

AOL Real Estate | Teke Wiggin | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Eleanor Smith, Disabled, Video, Polio, Ken Walden, National Fair Housing Counsel, Disability, Housing Discrimination, Concrete Change, Fair Housing Act, Impact News

AOL Real Estate: Eleanor Smith vividly recalls the first time she experienced housing discrimination. Then in her 30s, Smith and a friend had be...

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Real Estate Website Sorry For Racial Stereotypes Used To Pinpoint 'Perfect Neighborhoods'

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Homebuying, Quicken Loans, Housing Discrimination, Homebuyers, Picket Report, Black Voices News

When Picket Report was named one of Detroit's best tech startups of 2011, questions lingered as to whether its data-driven model for helping homebuyer...

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Janell Ross

U.S. Bank Faces Federal Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: U.S. Bank, Bv-Politics, Hud, u.s. Bancorp, Housing Discrimination, Fair Housing Act, Housing and Urban Development, Business News

U.S. Bank on Tuesday joined the ranks of large financial firms facing discrimination charges for the way it maintains foreclosed homes in mostly black...

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Feds Launch Probe Of Wells Fargo Housing Practices

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Latino Home Buyers, Communities of Color, Wells Fargo, Black Home Buyers, Hud, Discrimination, Foreclosure, Housing Discrimination, Justice Department, Civil Rights Violations, Housing and Urban Development, Civil Rights, Business News

Wells Fargo & Co., the nation's largest mortgage lender, is facing the second of at least two federal probes into how it treats minority borrowers and...

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Banks Fail To Maintain Foreclosed Homes In Minority Neighborhoods: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Hud, Reo, Foreclosure, Housing Discrimination, National Fair Housing Alliance, Fair Housing Act, Civil Rights Violations, Business News

Six of the nation’s largest banks have consistently failed to aggressively market and maintain foreclosed homes in communities of color, according t...

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Top Official On LGBT Housing Discrimination: 'You Will Be Held Accountable'

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 05.09.2012

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DETROIT — A new rule took effect this week barring those who own or operate U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded housing from...

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'Insidious And Persistent' Residential Segregation Called Out In Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: White Neighborhoods, Minority Income, Housing Prices, US2010 Project, Housing, Minority Families, Residential Segregation, Housing Discrimination, Bv-Money, Minority-Majority, Business News

Among minority American communities, rising household wealth far from a guarantees an improved standard of living, according to a new analysis of cens...

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LGBT Housing Discrimination in 2011: A Time for Pride and Action

John Trasvina | Posted 08.24.2011

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John Trasvina

Some LGBT individuals and families hide their identities in order to secure the apartment or house they want. That is not a price that anyone should pay in the United States of America.

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Turned Down For A Home Loan Or Apartment Because You're A Mom? Someone Just Broke The Law

Mary Olivella | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Home Loan, Maternity Leave, Housing, Women Home Loans, Hud, Mothers Housing Discrimination, Housing Discrimination, Housing Rights, Fair Housing Act, Housing Loans, Politics News
Mary Olivella

When trying to rent or buy a home, everyone should get a fair shake. But many credit-worthy pregnant women and mothers are being denied home loans or rentals solely because they are on maternity leave or have children.

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Ending Pregnancy-Related Lending Discrimination Is a Priority for HUD and America's Families

John Trasvina | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Department of Houseing and Urban Development, Maternity Leave, Hud, Fair Housing Act, Fair Housing, Pregnant Women Housing, Housing Lenders, Housing Discrimination, Politics News
John Trasvina

Lenders certainly have the right to verify income and determine creditworthiness. But they may not single out women on maternity leave for special guarantees, ignore their resources or assume that have no income or will not return to work.

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Amanda Terkel

Obama Administration Pushing To Strengthen LGBT Housing Rights Through Regulation

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development unveiled a series of proposed rules on Thursday designed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual...

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NO JOKE: Comic Suing For $100M Over Racial Discrimination

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Housing Discrimination, George Willborn, Discrimination Suit, Illinois, Housing Discrimination, George Willborn Discrimination Suit, Chicago, Video, Chicago News

A stand-up comic and his wife have filed a $100 million lawsuit in a case of alleged racial discrimination, NBC Chicago reports. George Willborn and ...

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Texas Apartment Complex Turned Away 'Curry People,' Ex-Worker Says

Dallas Star-Telegram | DIANE SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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A former leasing agent at a Euless apartment complex is asking state and federal officials to investigate whether the complex committed civil-rights v...

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Congress Should Fast Track the Housing Fairness Act

Gregory D. Squires | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Discrimination, National Fair Housing Alliance, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Gregory D. Squires

Four million instances of housing discrimination occur each year, yet federal, state, and local fair housing law enforcement agencies processed fewer than 11,000 complaints in 2008.

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Keep Housing Fair

Lonnie Nasatir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mezuzah, Stereotyping, Judaism, Jewish, Discrimination, Religious Persecution, Housing Discrimination, Fair Housing Act, Persecution, Politics News
Lonnie Nasatir

Minorities will not have access to fair housing in the future if condominium associations can hide their intentional discrimination behind facially neutral rules.

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