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"The Fair Housing Act, prohibits discrimination by direct providers of housing, such as landlords and real estate companies as well as other entities, such as municipalities, banks or other lending institutions and homeowners insurance companies whose discriminatory practices make housing unavailable to persons because of: race or color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability"
-Signed into law April 1968
(The fair housing act, 2015).

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-Systemic Racism
-The New Deal
-Redlining
-Growth of Urban America
(Gross, 2017).

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-Martin Luther King's death was the catalyst
-Goals of the policy
-Life expectancy
-Policy expected to provide financial equity and opportunity for Black/African-American people and their families.
(Fair housing act of 1968, 2017).

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-The Fair Housing Act seeks to protect all people from discriminatory housing practices.
-If you feel you have faced housing discrimination, you can file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
-Filing process
-(1-800-669-9777)
(HUD's title VIII fair housing complaint process, 2017)

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- Globalization has created a change in how people view others
- In FY 2016 there were 8,342 investigations by HUD and $25,247,453 in monetary relief in housing discrimination cases
- HUD also provides jobs specifically to people living in low income housing
- In FY 2016 HUD awarded $38 million in grants to 155 organizations to educate and organize core HUD initiatives

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- HUD, aka, Housing and Urban Development created in 1965
-1968 riots break out after MLK Jr.'s death. Fair Housing Act outlaws housing discrimination and gives HUD enforcement responsibility.
- Secretary is head of majority of decisions
- 8 Assistant Secretaries, 12 other positions within the Department
- Current Secretary is Dr. Ben Carson
- Located in Washington D.C.

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- The Fair Housing Act was apart of the Civil Rights Act and therefore was apart of preventing discrimination based on race, religion, disability, etc., specifically having to do with housing.

- Due to the presence of racial inequality there were was the issue with income for the housing, as well as, the discrimination when it comes to renting or buying a house.

- According to Blau et al. (2014) “Because public housing policy restricted eligibility for public housing to poor people, race and class combined to funnel poor African Americans into public housing” (p.361).

- To along with that, “In most urban areas it was too hard to get housing anywhere else and as a result, black families occupied 50 percent of all public housing” (Blau et al., p. 361, 2014).

- According to Blau et al. (2014), “housing discrimination is so powerful that by one estimate, its elimination would lead to a 14 percent drop in the poverty rate among African Americans” (p. 362)

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- The Fair Housing Act came to be from the Civil Rights Movement.

- According to Massey (2015), “Civil rights activists in 1968 hoped that outlawing racial discrimination in U.S. housing markets would lead to the desegregation of American society.”

- The civil right movement rose from racial conflict and therefore, “led to collective action among persons of color” (Blau & Abramovitz, p.222, 2014).

- “The shared experiences of being segregated into low-paid jobs, in underserved urban neighborhoods, and in unresponsive social welfare programs created this collective action” (Blau et al., p. 224, 2014).

- “A typical covenant on the northwest side of Detroit stated simply that the house “shall not be used or occupied by a person or persons except those of the Caucasian race” (Blau et al., p. 361, 2014).

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- The Fair Housing Act began with a color-blind social policy with MLK Jr. fighting for basic human rights for African Americans in 1968
- 1988 HUD was expanded to include Native Americans Alaskan Indians
- 1998 Congress approved Housing Reforms to decrease segregation by raceincome and to increase public housing options
- HUD understands that fair and equal housing is a human right

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- Fair Housing -- It's Your Right. (2017) Retrieved from https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/FHLaws/yourrights
Fair housing act of 1968. (2017).  History. Retrieved from    http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fair-housing-act

Gross, T. (2017, May 3). A ‘forgotten history’ of how the U.S. Government Segregated            America. NPR. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/52 6655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-America

HUD's title VIII fair housing complaint process. (2017). The united states department of housing and urban development. Retrieved from https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/complaint-process

The fair housing act. (2015). The United States Department of Justice. Retrieved from             https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair- housing-act-1