Fair Housing

Here is a summary of NMHC’s research and information on Fair Housing.

Latest Update: March 20, 2023

HUD has reinstated its 2013 Disparate Impact Rule, which focuses on unintentional discrimination in housing. Disparate impact theory creates liability for seemingly neutral policies that nonetheless have discriminatory effects on a protected class.

Latest Update: Jan. 19, 2023

Biden Administration Moves Forward with New AFFH Rule: The Biden administration has taken the next step in restoring a previously proposed rule issued under President Obama that will require cities, counties and states that receive federal housing funds to examine patterns of residential segregation within their borders and take steps to uproot them—a mandate that was first established by civil rights-era legislation but has proved almost impossible to enact.

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