When a single mother moved into an apartment in Denmark, Wis., she probably expected to be treated like any other renter. She wasn’t, and HUD is getting involved to stop the kind of discrimination she faced. According to a charge filed by HUD against the mother’s landlords, James and Julia Norton, the Nortons tried to [...]
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Neighborhoods change all the time. An industrial area might find new life as a haven for artists, or a blue-collar part of town could become the next hot ZIP code. But if a neighborhood changes because a landlord is discriminating against tenants based on their race, that change is illegal. That’s what the U.S. Department [...]
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You have the income. You have the credit score. And you are having a baby. When getting a home loan, being pregnant shouldn’t be a factor, right? Well, for some lenders it is. Some mortgage lenders deny credit to borrowers because of a pregnancy or maternity leave. It’s called pregnancy discrimination, and it’s a violation [...]
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From June 20-23, people from all areas of the housing field will come together in Denver for the National Healthy Homes Conference. Before that meeting, the director of HUD’s Office of Healthy Homes, Jon Gant, took part in a live tweet chat last week with people interested in making housing healthy and safe for everyone. [...]
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All across the U.S. public housing authorities are gearing up for a Father’s Day weekend like no other. Approximately 200 agencies in cities across the country answered HUD’s call to host Father’s Day 2011 events on Saturday, June 18th - the day before the official Father’s Day – to celebrate fatherhood, family and to support dads [...]
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