Housing Discrimination
Welcome to the FindLaw's Fair Housing Rights and Discrimination section. The concept of fair housing holds that no one should suffer unequal treatment in housing decisions based on a protected characteristic such as race, gender or disability. Anyone who treats an individual unequally in a housing decision based on one of these characteristics has likely engaged in housing discrimination in violation of the Fair Housing Act. This section contains information on discrimination and fair housing rights for home buyers and renters (tenants). To get started, choose a link from the list below.
- Understanding Your Rights: Housing Discrimination
Basic overview of U.S. laws protecting fair housing and housing anti-discrimination rights.
- Race Discrimination and Fair Housing
Primer on fair housing protections against racial discrimination.
- Housing Discrimination: FAQs
Answers to common questions about fair housing and housing discrimination.
- Rental Housing Rights for Disabled Tenants
Federal fair housing laws applicable to disabled tenants.
- Fair Housing Laws: Renters' Protection from Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Overview of state and local fair housing laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
- Fair Housing: Federal Laws
List of federal laws governing fair housing and housing discrimination.
- Fair Housing: U.S. Supreme Court Cases
Important Supreme Court decisions on the subject of fair housing and housing discrimination.
- Filing a Housing Discrimination Complaint
How to file a housing discrimination complaint with HUD.
- HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
links to HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
- U.S. DOJ Housing and Civil Enforcement
Link to the Department of Justice's Fair Housing Section.
- Age Discrimination Act of 1975
- Architectural Barriers Act
- Executive Order 11063
- Executive Order 11246
- Executive Order 12892
- Executive Order 12898
- Executive Order 13166
- Executive Order 13217
- Fair Housing Act
- Fair Housing Laws: Renters' Protection from Sexual Orientation Discrimination
- Fair Housing: Federal Laws
- Fair Housing: Race Discrimination
- Federal Organizations on Housing
- Housing and Civil Rights: History and Law
- Housing Discrimination: FAQs
- Housing Discrimination: U.S. Supreme Court Cases
- Rental Housing Rights for Disabled Tenants
- Section 109 of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
- Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Title IX of the1972 Education Amendments
- Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Non-Discrimination in Federally-Assisted Program
- Understanding Your Rights: Housing Discrimination