President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968, days after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The law, initially focused on racial discrimination, was ...

Heatherwood Luxury Rentals pays $86.5G to settle fair housing lawsuit regarding discrimination against tenants with disabilities. Credit: Google maps By Jonathan LaMantia jonathan.lamantia@newsday ...

Fair housing organizations that are suing to keep millions in federal funding in place following the cancellation of previously approved grants by the government may, in fact, be losing that money..

Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair and stable housing. When Martin Luther King, Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle ...

The regulation, which would implement a provision of the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act, is at the heart of Biden’s effort to advance racial equity and tackle the wealth gap, since homeownership ...

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 — which was expanded in 1974 and 1988 — prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status or national origin.

Advocates, city officials, and concerned residents gathered on June 20 for Raleigh's 2025 Fair Housing Conference, an event dedicated to not only preserving but actively bolstering initiatives that ...

The Fair Housing Act, signed into law 57 years ago, prohibits housing discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability. Despite the progress made ...

Bernice King reflects on the Fair Housing Act, made law after her father’s killing King is the CEO of The King Center and the youngest daughter of civil rights leaders The Rev. Martin Luther ...

The City of Dallas is recognizing Fair Housing Month with an educational event in Far South Dallas on Thursday. April is Fair Housing Month, which commemorates the 1968 Fair Housing Act that ...

“The way real estate agents engage in housing discrimination has gotten a lot more subtle but it is definitely still existent,” said Lisa Rice, president of the National Fair Housing Alliance.