New Videos Educate Tenants & Others About Fair Housing Rights
The Fair Housing Project has released six new videos to educate the public about their fair housing rights. The videos provide information about reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, assistance animals, fair housing protections for families with children, and what a person should do if they believe they have been discriminated against. Videos in English:... Read More
Court Upholds Seattle, WA, “Fair Chance” Housing Law Prohibiting Criminal History Screening
On July 6, 2021, a federal court upheld the City of Seattle’s Fair Chance Housing Ordinance. See Yim v. City of Seattle, 2021 WL 2805377 (W.D. Wash. July 6, 2021). The ordinance prohibits housing providers from taking an adverse action against a prospective occupant, tenant, or household member based on any arrest record, conviction record,... Read More
HUD Restores Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Requirement
On June 10, 2021, HUD announced the publication of the interim final rule restoring a long-standing Fair Housing Act requirement for recipients of HUD funding to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (“AFFH”). The interim final rule restores the robust definition of the duty to affirmatively further fair housing, originally adopted in 2015. The Fair Housing Act... Read More
CDC Issues New Order Extending Eviction Moratorium
On August, 4, 2021, the CDC issued a new order on the Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions in Communities with Substantial or High Transmission of COVID-19 to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19. Click here to read the full CDC order. Legal Aid of North Carolina has additional information about the CDC’s... Read More