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This month, we’re going to review how to ensure compliance with fair housing law when dealing with recent immigrants. It’s a hot button issue in light of the national debate over immigration reform.
This month, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, our lesson focuses on discrimination based on race—the bedrock of fair housing law. When the landmark legislation was enacted in 1968, Congress declared that ensuring fair housing throughout the United States was a national policy of the “highest priority.” The law's broad provisions banning housing discrimination were intended to replace racially segregated neighborhoods with “truly integrated and balanced living patterns.”
This month, we are going to focus on preventing fair housing trouble based on national origin. According to the latest information available from HUD, national origin lags behind disability, race, and familial status as the basis for formal fair housing complaints. In fiscal year 2009, HUD reported that 13 percent of formal complaints were based on national origin—more than half of which (8 percent) involved Hispanic or Latino individuals.
This month, we are going to update you on an important topic: screening applicants based on their citizenship and immigration status. Federal fair housing law hasn't changed in this area, but you need to know about a number of significant developments in the law on the state and local levels, according to Atlanta attorney Robin Hein, who specializes in fair housing.
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