A fair housing law proposal to promote racial and economic integration
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Reinvestment Fund have released “An ‘All-Out’ Effort to Achieve Desegregation and Equality of Opportunity: Assessment of Fair Housing 2.0.,” a pathbreaking research brief that proposes the use of fair housing law to work toward the end of segregation. In the report, authors Provost and James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education Wendell E. Pritchett, Erica V. Rodarte Costa, and Reinvestment Fund’s Ira J. Goldstein and Emily S. Dowdall emphasize that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) provision of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) is an obligation that attaches to all federal agencies, not just to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).