People of color are significantly more likely than white people to experience evictions and homelessness in the United States, the result of centuries of structural racism that continues today, that has systematically and purposefully excluded African Americans and others from equal access to housing, community supports, and opportunities for economic mobility.
We must work to right these wrongs and work towards racial equity in housing: we can’t address racial inequities without addressing housing, and we cannot solve for housing inequities without addressing race.
- NLIHC tracks regulations around three fair housing topics and develops resources for advocates to weigh in on the process.
- Learn more about the income distribution of renters by race and ethnicity in The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.
- Read "We Have Work To Do" by Diane Yentel, NLIHC president and CEO. Added May 30, 2020
- Read “The Fierce Urgency of Fair and Affordable Homes” by Diane Yentel, NLIHC president and CEO, and Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO.
Memo to Members and Partners Articles
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has prepared a sample comment letter and a more detailed sign-on letter in response to HUD’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comments regarding possible amendments to the Fair Housing Act disparate impact standard (see Memo, 5/14). Comments…
House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) introduced the “Restoring Fair Housing Protections Eliminated by HUD Act of 2018” (H.R. 6220) on June 26. The proposal to enforce fair housing rights was crafted in response to HUD’s suspension of the 2015 Affirmatively…
A HUD Exchange email arriving at 4:34 pm on Friday, May 18 announced that HUD would be publishing three separate notices in the Federal Register indefinitely suspending implementation of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule and removing its Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH)…
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, a Center for Independent Living (CIL) and advocate for people with disabilities, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging that the City of Chicago has funded and developed tens of thousands of affordable rental homes…