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• December 2005

  • HUD issued guidance allowing housing providers to house evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita who are under the age of 55 and continue to qualify for the Fair Housing Act’s “housing for older persons” exemption. View the guidance.

  • A landlord in Portland, Oregon has been charged with violating the Fair Housing Act for refusing to rent an apartment to an interracial couple on the basis of race. Read the press release.| View the charge.

• November 2005

  • HUD awarded $18.04 million in grants through the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP). The 104 grants, to organizations in 36 states and the District of Columbia, will fund investigation of housing discrimination complaints and educate the public and the housing industry about the laws against housing discrimination. View the FHIP award listing.

  • Assistant Secretary Kendrick appeals to housing industry to treat all families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita the same as they search for new permanent housing. Read the letter.

• October 2005

  • Kim Kendrick was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity on October 7, 2005. She was sworn in by HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson on October 12, 2005.

  • The Fair Housing Training Academy held its dedication ceremony at its permanent location on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC on October 3, 2005. The Academy will serve as the center of development for housing rights professionals. Read the press release.

• September 2005

  • HUD has charged a Mississippi apartment management group with violating the Fair Housing Act for refusing to rent an apartment to a man with a mental and physical disability. Read the charge.

  • HUD has charged an apartment owner in the Kansas City, Missouri, area with racial discrimination in refusing to rent to a man because he is African American. Read the charge.

  • HUD has charged a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, landlord with violating the Fair Housing Act for refusing to rent an apartment to a man who disclosed he was HIV-positive. Read the charge.

  • HUD has charged Arlington Park Racecourse, LLC, and Churchill Downs, Inc., with violating the Fair Housing Act by restricting racetrack workers with children to housing that consists of overcrowded single-room units with no private bathrooms or air conditioning, while offering workers without the children the option to live in housing that provides these amenities. Read More.

• August 2005

  • HUD and the Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH) signed an agreement to assist people with disabilities. HACH must construct or make 180 of its total housing units accessible within four years. Read More

  • A landlord in East Moline, Illinois charged in violation of the Fair Housing Act for refusing to rent a house to an individual because of their race. Read More

  • Property owners in Milwaukee, Wisconsin charged with a second violation of the Fair Housing Act, accused of refusing to rent to families with children. Read More

• July 2005
  • HUD study shows people with disabilities face discrimination in up to half of rental inquiries. New study the most comprehensive disability housing discrimination study conducted.
    Read More.

    	Disability Discrimination Study
    	Guidebook for Practititioners

  • HUD charged two landlords with violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against Hispanic families trying to buy homes in Austin,Texas. Read More

  • HUD and the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) recently executed a Voluntary Compliance Agreement (VCA). As a result, HACP will create 264 fully-accessible units for low-income persons with disabilities in Pittsburgh within the next five years. In addition, the Agreement requires HACP to revise its policies on admissions and occupancy, transfers, and reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to ensure that they comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

• June 2005
  • HUD reached a landmark, $1.2 million disability settlement with Lambert Development LLC, Roel Construction Co., Inc., and Carrier Johnson, the developers and general contractors of a high-rise condominium complex in San Diego, CA. The settlement resolves a complaint alleging failure to pay for accessibility modifications that, by law, should have been included in the complex when it was constructed in 2003. Read more.

• May 2005

  • As part of a recent HUD settlement, the managers of a Honolulu, Hawaii condominium complex will pay up to $50,000 and improve disability access for residents and others who use wheelchairs. Read more.

  • Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago and Dallas were among the 13 cities targeted by a new Spanish-language fair housing radio campaign released today to make tenants and their landlords as well as homebuyers, realtors, borrowers, and lenders aware of the Fair Housing Act that prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, family status, or disability. Read more.

• April 2005

  • A Saraland, Alabama, landlord was charged with violating the Fair Housing Act, after an investigation found she had discriminated against tenants, a white female, and her 18-month-old biracial daughter, based on race and color.|Read More

  • Fair Housing Month 2005

• March 2005

  • The Miami-Dade Housing Agency (MDHA) signed a Voluntary Compliance Agreement (VCA) with HUD after a review of the Housing Authority's properties, programs, and services revealed flaws with the physical accessibility of common areas and individual housing units. The VCA will provide 478 units in new accessible housing for people with disabilities over a period six years. Read VCA.

  • Several St. Louis-based companies, and their representatives, were charged with violating the Fair Housing Act for designing and constructing Applegate Apartments in Swansea, Illinois, without required accessibility features for people with disabilities.|Read More

• February 2005
  • HUD approved the conditional use of the 2003 International Building Code (IBC), published by the International Code Council (ICC), as a safe harbor for compliance with the accessibility requirements of the Fair Housing Act.| Read More

• January 2005

  • An Illinois real estate broker and apartment owners, Zellpac, Inc., were charged with violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent an apartment to a woman because she uses a wheelchair. |Read More

  • The Housing Authority of the City of Las Vegas (HACLV) signed a Voluntary Compliance Agreement (VCA) committing to provide over one hundred fully-accessible public housing units for residents with disabilities among other things. |View press release.

  • HUD-funded fair housing organization in San Antonio, Texas helps secure settlement in a retirement community discrimination case. The former owner and the manager of a San Antonio retirement community have agreed to pay $420,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging discrimination against tenants with disabilities. |View DOJ press release.

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Fair Housing Publications

	Fair Housing Quiz
	FHEO Newsletters   Newsletter Archive
	Equal Opportunity for All - English
	Equal Opportunity for All - Spanish
	Fair Housing Planning Guide
	Keepers of the Dream Video
	List of HUD Programs Subject to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
	Predatory Lending Brochure: "Putting Your Home on the Loan Line is Risky Business"
	Predatory Lending Brochure: Spanish-language version

Studies and Reports

Policy and Guidance

	Advertising under the Fair Housing Act   Fair Housing Logo   Guidance Regarding Advertisements Under §804(c) of the Fair Housing Act   Part 109 - Fair Housing Advertising
	Discrimination against people of faith
	Group homes, local land use & the Fair Housing Act
	Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 (HOPA)   HOPA Q&As
	Limited English Proficiency
	Minority homeownership
	Multifamily Housing Contract Administrators
	New Guidance for Testing: Treatment of Testing Evidence in Fair Housing Complaint Investigations and Conciliation--April 10, 2003
	Occupancy Standards - Keating Memorandum
	Post 9/11 rights and responsibilities of landlords and residents
	Reasonable Accommodations under the Fair Housing Act
	Section 8 homeownership final rule

Voluntary Compliance Agreements

	Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP)   VCA
	Miami-Dade Housing Agency VCA   VCA
	Las Vegas Housing Authority VCA   VCA   Appendices   PIH Notice
	Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration VCA   More information
	District of Columbia Housing Authority   VCA 1   VCA 2
	Boston Housing Authority VCA   2002 BHA VCA

Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

	Real Estate Professionals, and Hispanic media
	HUD/DOJ/Treasury   Low-income housing tax credit MOU