The Crisis of Housing Segregation

Via Watching Justice.

The National Fair Housing Alliance has released its 2005 Fair Housing Trends Report, “[m]ore than 35 years after the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act, at least 3.7 million fair housing violations still occur annually.” And lack of federal commitment to enforcement is a big part of the problem. The report is based on 2004 housing discrimination complaint data compiled from National Housing Alliance member agencies nationwide, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and state and local government agencies. It finds that problems with fair housing violations continue unabated, even as the federal government's enforcement of the Fair Housing Act against race discrimination has dropped in each of the past three years: between them, DOJ and HUD brought only 30 cases in 2001, 28 cases in 2002, and 10 cases in 2003.

Click here [pdf] to visit the National Fair Housing Alliance and read the 2005 Fair Housing Trends Report.

Click here [pdf] to view the National Fair Housing Alliance press release highlighting the report’s finding that “HUD and Justice Fail to Enforce Fair Housing Law.”