Housing Fairness Act of 2025
Housing Fairness Act of 2025
Plain Language Summary
# Housing Fairness Act of 2025 Summary **What the bill would do:** The Housing Fairness Act of 2025 would expand the federal government's efforts to detect and prevent housing discrimination. It requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to conduct nationwide testing to identify when renters, homebuyers, or mortgage borrowers are treated differently based on race, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. The bill also extends funding through 2028 for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, which helps people who have experienced housing discrimination, and creates a grant program to assist public and private organizations in combating discriminatory practices. **Who it affects:** This bill impacts prospective renters and homebuyers who may experience discrimination, as well as organizations that work to prevent housing discrimination and assist victims.
It also affects HUD and the housing and mortgage lending industries, which would be subject to increased testing and monitoring. **Current status:** The bill (HR 68) was introduced in the 119th Congress by Rep. Al Green (D-TX) and is currently in committee, meaning it has not yet been voted on by the full House of Representatives.
CRS Official Summary
Veterans, Women, Families with Children, Race, and Persons with Disabilities Housing Fairness Act of 2025 or the Housing Fairness Act of 2025This bill expands efforts to detect and address housing discrimination.Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must conduct a nationwide testing program to (1) detect and document differences in the treatment of prospective renters, homebuyers, or mortgage borrowers; (2) measure patterns of adverse treatment because of the race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin of a renter, homebuyer, or borrower; and (3) measure the prevalence of such discriminatory practices across housing and mortgage lending markets.The bill also reauthorizes through FY2028 the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, which supports organizations that provide direct assistance to individuals who have been victims of housing discrimination.Additionally, HUD must implement a grant program to assist public and private nonprofit organizations in (1) conducting comprehensive studies on the causes or effects of housing discrimination and segregation, and (2) implementing pilot projects that test solutions to help prevent or alleviate housing discrimination and segregation.
Latest Action
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.