In 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in an attempt to end public policies and banking practices that had enforced racial segregation for decades. Before signing it into law, President ...

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 ...

Fair housing groups across the U.S. received a similar letter, including The Fair Housing Center in Painesville, which serves Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 — one of the most challenging and in some ways the crowning achievements of the Civil Rights revolution — became law 50 years ago. In this era of hyperpartisanship ...

Nearly a year after the Trump administration replaced an Obama-era fair housing rule that critics decried as “burdensome” and that President Donald Trump alleged would “abolish” suburbs ...

The Obama administration announced Wednesday a new rule aimed at promoting fair housing, nearly 50 years after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed to combat segregation and wide-spread ...

“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.