Watch Out For These Common Housing Discrimination Complaints
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The Street
The Street
By Rob Lenihan A new study finds that fair housing complaints increased even though there were fewer agencies reporting data. When President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968, he said “fair housing for all—all human beings who live in this country—is now a part of the American way of life.” Congress had been considering the fair housing bill for a long time, but when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, Johnson used the national tragedy to urge for the bill’s speedy approval. It’s been 55 years since the bill was passed, but a new …