Fair Housing for All

According to the Leadership Conference:

"The fair housing enforcement system at HUD is broken. There is a fundamental conflict of interest: HUD is in the awkward position of policing its own programs for fair housing violations. HUD depends on various entities to carry out its policy goals, but is also responsible, when acting as a fair housing enforcer, to investigate some of these very same entities for housing discrimination. For example, HUD depends on lenders to promote homeownership, on builders to build affordable housing, and on cities to redevelop neighborhoods after a natural disaster. Forty years after Congress first passed the Fair Housing Act, we continue to have segregated communities, perpetuated in large part by the very agency charged with protecting the country against illegal housing discrimination. That is why a bipartisan commission, co-chaired by former HUD Secretaries Henry Cisneros and Jack Kemp, recommended amending the Fair Housing Act to move fair housing enforcement from HUD to an independent agency."

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