Understanding Disparate Impact | Fair Housing
It sounds pretty technical, but this part of the enforcement of the Fair Housing Act is quite straightforward and incredibly valuable to the fight against discrimination.
The disparate impact standard allows people to challenge housing discrimination without having to prove “discriminatory intent” in the mind of the discriminator. In other words, it’s the outcome that matters, even if it’s impossible to demonstrate (as it usually is) what a developer or an insurance company or a landlord’s intention was when they took the discriminatory action.
HUD and the White House are trying to push through a rule that would make it more difficult to fight discrimination in housing. This would strip the Fair Housing Act of 1968 of its biggest tool for enforcement.
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