Fair Housing Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3504 and H.R. 7787U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 717 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administrative affirmative marketing agencies Amendment Arlington Heights Attorney authority Bank Board bill cease and desist Chairman civil action Civil Rights Act Commission Committee complaint conciliation Congress congressional constitutional Counsel Cuyahoga County damages deinstitutionalization discrimination in housing discriminatory district Don Edwards DRINAN dwelling economic status effect enacted exclusionary Fair Housing Act fair housing law Federal filed Fourteenth Amendment fund GALBREATH group homes hearing Housing and Urban housing discrimination housing practice HUD's institution issue legislation limited litigation low income McCLORY ment mentally minority mortgage neighborhood OKIN opportunity ordinances percent problem prohibit property insurance proposed protection public housing race racial real estate Realtors redlining regulations remedies require residential response savings and loan Seventh Amendment STAREK statute steering subcommittee Supreme Court testimony Thank tion Title VIII Toledo United Urban Development violation VOLKMER zoning
Popular passages
Page 698 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 442 - Service as may be appropriate to further its activities in preventing or eliminating discriminatory housing practices; and (5) administer the programs and activities relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively to further the policies of this title.
Page 28 - The present case does not fall within the categories just described but is one of private right, that is, of the liability of one individual to another under the law as defined.
Page 452 - If any provision of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the title and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 704 - I may misinterpret the Court's opinion, but it seems to me that it adopts a balancing approach, and does not outlaw federal power in areas such as environmental protection, where the federal interest is demonstrably greater and where state facility compliance with imposed federal standards would be essential.
Page 452 - ... participating lawfully In speech or peaceful assembly opposing any denial of the opportunity to so participate — shall be fined not more than $1.000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and If bodily injury results shall be fined not more than $10,000.
Page 654 - Making or permitting any unfair discrimination between individuals of the same class and of essentially the same hazard in the amount of premium, policy fees, or rates charged for any policy...
Page 66 - It is the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States.
Page 26 - Congress creates new statutory "public rights," it may assign their adjudication to an administrative agency with which a jury trial would be incompatible, without violating the Seventh Amendment's injunction that jury trial is to be "preserved