Equal-opportunity housing means everyone has equal opportunity to be considered for the purchase or rental of property regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, religion or disability. Equal ...

It does so through its Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO), which is headquartered in Washington, with 10 regional offices across the U.S.

The fair-housing law placed a sweeping prohibition on all acts of discrimination related to the home buying and renting process, making prejudicial treatment based on race, religion or national ...

A year ago, the HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity released the Assistance Animals Notice to clarify the rights and obligations under the FHA regarding assistance animals.

Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair and stable housing. When Martin Luther King, Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle ...

In an effort to reverse the Trump administration’s legacy on weakening enforcement of fair housing laws, the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has released a detailed policy roadmap for the ...

Sex discrimination in the Fair Housing Act At issue is the fact that discrimination against LGBTQ+ people wasn’t specifically cited in the Fair Housing Act. But the Equal Access Rule enacted in ...

Agencies working together must ensure that tornado victims have equal and fair access to rent housing, buy homes, obtain credit and services, and to obtain fair appraisals, officials said.

If the new administration fails to take bold and immediate action, Black and Brown people will never fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality will grow, and the dismantling of fa… ...