Congress

Contact your members of Congress through the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to #fightforhousingjustice by opposing HUD's attempts to roll back fair housing protections.

Congressional statements opposing HUD's disparate impact proposal

Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), Senator Doug Jones to HUD Secretary Carson: New Rule Would Make it “Nearly Impossible” to Bring Housing Discrimination Cases (September 10, 2019)

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Waters Statement on HUD’s Move to Weaken Protections Against Housing Discrimination (August 22, 2019)

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Brown Blasts Trump Proposal That Would Weaken Protections for Victims of Housing Discrimination, Press Release (August 2, 2019)

Senators' letter about algorithms and discriminatory Lending

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Doug Jones (D-AL), Letter re: Mixed Results of Studies of Algorithmic Models in Financial Technology (June 10, 2019)

U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Committee memo re: the fair housing act

Financial Services Committee Majority Staff, Tuesday, April 2, 2019, Full Committee Hearing entitled "The Fair Housing Act: Reviewing Efforts to Eliminate Discrimination and Promote Opportunity in Housing” (March 28, 2019)