National Fair Housing Alliance to Host “Fair Housing Rights of Immigrant Families” Webinar on October 14, Releases Memo on Immigrant Housing Protections
Oct 05, 2026
By Kayla Blackwell, NLIHC Senior Housing Policy Analyst
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) will host a webinar, “Fair Housing Rights of Immigrant Families: Housing Advocacy Amid Escalating Immigration Enforcement,” on Wednesday, October 14 at 2:00 pm ET. NFHA also released a memorandum, “Fair Housing Rights of Immigrant Families,” which summarizes protections for immigrants, including immigration-related screening, language access, and laws at the state and local level. The October 14 webinar will include a discussion by NFHA counsel and other immigration advocates to explain confusing immigration status verification requirements and other recent policy changes for immigrant families.
The webinar will include speakers from housing, immigration, and consumer protection organizations: Carla Sanchez-Adams, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC); Maddie Geschu, director of policy & advocacy at the Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition (PIF); Maire Claire Tran-Leung, evictions initiative project director at the National Housing Law Project (NHLP); Morgan Williams, senior counsel at NFHA; and Scott Chang, senior counsel at NFHA. NFHA’s announcement states: “The National Housing Law Project will cut through the confusion on status verification requirements. The National Fair Housing Alliance will discuss the fair housing and other civil rights of immigrants. The National Consumer Law Center will address debanking and homeownership. And the Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition will frame how advocates can reach the households most at risk.”
NFHA’s memorandum provides an overview of federal law, recognizing that while immigration status is not a protected class in the Fair Housing Act, the civil rights law applies to all people in the United States, and state and local laws provide additional protection against discrimination. The memo provides case examples of discriminatory housing practices based on national origin (a protected class) and other cases impacting housing access based on immigration status and language access.
Register for the October 14 webinar.
Read NFHA’s memorandum.