Fair Housing Planning Toolkit
Stay Informed!
HUD’s Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity (FHEO) toolkit entitled 'Lessons from the Ground: Best Practices in Fair Housing Planning'. The toolkit offers guidance on a variety of topics.
HUD Restores Fair Housing Rule
HUD Updates Fair Housing Standards
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it has submitted to the Federal Register for publication a Final Rule entitled Restoring HUD's Discriminatory Effects Standard. The Final Rule rescinds the Department's 2020 rule governing Fair Housing Act disparate impact claims and restores the 2013 discriminatory effects rule. In the Final Rule, HUD emphasizes that the 2013 rule is more consistent with how the Fair Housing Act has been applied in the courts and in front of the agency for more than 50 years, and that it more effectively implements the Act's broad remedial purpose of eliminating unnecessary discriminatory practices from the housing market.
Understanding Discriminatory Effects
The discriminatory effects doctrine (which includes disparate impact and perpetuation of segregation) is a tool for addressing policies that unnecessarily cause systemic inequality in housing, regardless of whether they were adopted with discriminatory intent.