Housing discrimination
Housing discrimination is discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate.
Four types of housing discrimination are rental discrimination, sales discrimination, lending and mortgage discrimination and homeowners insurance.
The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is charged with enforcing fair housing laws, including the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
See also
- Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
- Affordable housing
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- Fair housing
- Federal Housing Administration
- Homelessness in the United States
- Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994
- Housing Act of 1937
- Housing Act of 1949
- Housing Discrimination (United States)
- Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
- Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
- Housing for Older Persons Act
- McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
- National Housing Act of 1934
- Ownership equity
- Public housing in the United States
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
- Real estate economics
- Redlining
- Subprime
- Subsidized housing
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Urban Institute
Footnotes
Further reading
- Richard R.W. Brooks and Carol M. Rose, Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.