Tag Archives: Disparate Impact Rule

Here’s what HUD has to say about housing discrimination by companies using algorithms in a proposed amendment to address the definition and rules of disparate impact under the Fair Housing Act.

HUD has announced it will be seeking public comment on whether its 2013 Disparate Impact Regulation is consistent with a more recent 2015 Supreme Court ruling that clarifies liability as it pertains to disparate impact claims. "HUD remains committed to ...

The disparate impact lawsuit to be brought under the Fair Housing Act has now been dismissed after sparking a controversial decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday by a 5-4 vote in the case of Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. that disparate impact claims can legally be brought about under the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments both for and against the controversial "disparate impact" rule in housing, stakeholders on both sides are awaiting the Court's decision as to whether or not disparate impact claims can be made under the Fair Housing Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on January 21 on whether or not "disparate impact" claims are allowed under the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The case scheduled to be heard later this month, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, et al., v. The Inclusive Community Project, Inc., centers on claims that the Texas state housing department's fixed criteria for approving tax credits for low-income housing developers resulted in the approval of such credits for a larger percentage of developers in areas more heavily populated by minorities than in areas more populated by whites.