The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

The Future of Fair Housing

• Table of Contents
• About the Commission
• Acknowledgements
• Executive Summary
  • Recommendations
• Introduction
• I. Housing Discrimination and Segregation Continue
• II. Fair Housing Enforcement at HUD is Failing
• III. Fair Housing Enforcement at the Justice Department is Weak
• IV. The Need for Strong Fair Housing Programs
• V. Fair Housing and the Foreclosure Crisis
• VI. Federal Housing Programs
• VII. Fair Housing Obligations of Federal Grantees
• VIII. Regionalism and Fair Housing Enforcement
• IX. The President's Fair Housing Council
• X. Fair Housing Education: A Missing Piece
• XI. The Necessity of Fair Housing Research
• XII. Conclusion

Appendices

• Appendix A: Emerging Fair Housing Issues
• Appendix B: International Disapproval of U.S. Fair Housing Policy
• Appendix C:
  • Letter to Congressional Leaders
  • Letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
• Appendix D: Commission Witnesses and Staff

About the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

Members of the Commission

Co-Chair Henry Cisneros, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Executive Chairman, CityView

Co-Chair Jack Kemp, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Founder and Chairman, Kemp Partners

Pat Vredevoogd Combs, 2007 President, National Association of REALTORS®

Okianer Christian Dark, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law

I. King Jordan, President Emeritus, Gallaudet University

Myron Orfield, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota School of Law; Executive Director, Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota

Gordon Quan, Former Mayor Pro Tem and Chair of the Housing Committee, City of Houston

Guest Commissioners

Tina Brooks, Undersecretary for Housing and Community Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston)

Charles McMillan, 2009 President of the National Association of Realtors (Houston)

Commission Hearings

• July 15, 2008: Chicago, Illinois, Access Living
• July 31, 2008: Houston, Texas, National Bar Association Annual Conference
• September 9, 2008: Los Angeles, California, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• September 22, 2008: Boston, Massachusetts, Suffolk University Law School
• October 17, 2008: Atlanta, Georgia, Morehouse College

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