Along with Facebook allowing Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, the social media company has created a space for property owners to discriminate against people of color, and the federal government had to step in. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has filed a new…
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Sessions to Put the 'Dis' in Disability
Alarms are going off throughout the disability advocacy world over Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s decision to repeal 25 documents, including ten of which are very important Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidance, which he deemed are “outdated, used to circumvent the regulatory process, or that improperly goes beyond…
Ben Carson on Why He’s Qualified to be HUD Secretary: ‘I Grew Up in the Inner City’
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a retired neurosurgeon to become the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Dr. Ben Carson. Carson, who dropped out of the 2016 presidential race in March and backed Trump, has yet to publicly issue an acceptance of the position….
Supreme Court Upholds Housing Discrimination Protections
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that individuals affected by discriminatory housing practices can still seek remedies even if they cannot prove the discrimination was intentional. In a sharply divided and surprising 5-4 ruling, the court upheld the notion that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 allows those affected to…