Legislative · Federal
Fair Housing Act bans housing discrimination — the counter to redlining
- Direction
- +2 — major benefit to Freedmen
- Force
- 1.00 — enacted, vetoed, or final
- Status
- Decided
- Date
- 1968-04-11
Why this rating
Signed April 11, 1968 — a week after Dr. King's assassination — Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Rated +2: it directly attacked the mechanism that the 1934 FHA redlining regime had built into federal policy, opening the housing market that had been closed to the lineage for a generation.
Summary
Signed April 11, 1968 — a week after Dr. King's assassination — Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Rated +2: it directly attacked the mechanism that the 1934 FHA redlining regime had built into federal policy, opening the housing market that had been closed to the lineage for a generation.
Sources
- The Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. Ch. 45 — govinfo (U.S. Government Publishing Office) — official record · primary · historical
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