During the Civil Rights Movement, the Chicago Freedom Movement took place from 1965 to 1967. Dr. King co-led this campaign with local activists to confront racial discrimination, segregation, and housing inequities in one of America's largest cities. Unlike the Jim Crow laws of the South, segregation in Chicago was often enforced through policy, lending practices and real estate discrimination rather than explicit laws.
HUD first formalized recognition of disparate impact liability in a 2013 rule issued during the Obama administration. That interpretation was affirmed in 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. During President Donald Trump's first term, HUD revised the rule to more closely reflect the Supreme Court's Inclusive Communities decision and to clarify its application.
Hansbrough, who uses a wheelchair due to a spinal cord disease and is legally blind, moved into a low-income apartment in St Louis, Missouri, three years ago. If Hansbrough falls, his son, who lives nearby, can help him, so he gave his son a key to his apartment. But to get in the building his son also needs a fob for the front door,
The Thurmond Amendment, passed in 1988, is a carve-out of the Fair Housing Act that enables landlords-and the algorithmic screening software they increasingly rely on-to summarily deny housing to applicants with any conviction related to selling drugs, regardless of the circumstances. The result has been to undermine housing affordability. If the nation is to act and start making housing more affordable, removing this barrier is one obvious step to take.
