Homeless People-Fair Housing Act

Fair Housing Act

The original, old Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968. It was the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 or FHA which outlined America 's fair housing laws to ensure equal opportunity in housing.

Purpose of Federal Fair Housing Act

The Federal Fair Housing Act was aimed to protect:

housing discrimination by:
- race
- color
- religion
- national origin
- gender
- disability
- family status

The Federal Fair Housing Act and all of its fair housing laws do not, however, specify the treatment of homeless people or homelessness. But, many homeless people will fall into the above categories protected by the Federal Fair Housing Act.

Federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) provisions

The Federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) provides two provisions which are:

to prohibit discrimination on the basis of membership in any protected classes
to require landlords, realtors, city officials and anyone in the real estate market to make reasonable accommodation to accommodate any of the protected classes.

The Federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) focuses largely on disabled people. Since the Federal Fair Housing Act along with the federal fair housing laws were established before the problem of homelessness became large enough to need particular attention from law makers, the Federal Fair Housing Act, in its original version, was not intended to solve the problem of homeless people and homelessness in America.

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