In New York City, with more than 300,000 cooperative apartment units,
fair housing laws will never be truly effective in the coop context so
long as the coop admissions process is ruled by secrecy.
How can it be that the federal government stands idly by while members of the LGBT community are discriminated against in the housing that the federal government itself has funded or otherwise assisted?
Racially segregated, high poverty neighborhoods are a continuing reality in many American cities. Congress has an opportunity to to reinvigorate two of the program’s original goals of housing choice and deconcentration of poverty.
United States obtains $120,000 settlement and injunctive relief in cased based on National Fair Housing Alliance testing; Justice Department press release describes fair housing enforcement as "top priority."
The Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School finds substantial disparities based on race and linked to residential segregation
UCLA's Civil Rights Project reports on increasing school segregation, cites need to fight residential segregation if there is to be hope of reversing pattern.
Inspector General's Office at DOJ, in report focusing on 2003-2006, finds illegal effort to make Civil Rights Division a more conservative environment.
The overwhelming Congressional rejection of the Supreme Court's unwarranted restrictions on the coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, long-sought by civil rights advocates, is in effect as of the first of the year.
