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Posted September 10th, 2012 by Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña
Last week, we announced a $20,000 settlement, the latest in a series of important HUD enforcement actions across the country to address denials of home loans to women because they are pregnant or on maternity leave. We are able to aggressively pursue this type of discrimination because of the help and engagement of MomsRising and [...]
Posted August 3rd, 2012 by Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña
FORT WORTH, TX — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that Waterstone Mortgage Corporation, based in Wisconsin, has agreed to pay $27,000 to settle allegations that Cadence Lending, formerly owned by Waterstone, and two employees refused financing for the mortgage of a woman because she was on maternity leave. She [...]
Posted January 26th, 2012 by Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it is charging the owner of a 24-unit apartment building in Holyoke, Massachusetts, with housing discrimination for denying units to families that have children. HUD’s charge alleges that Nilma Fichera, who owns and manages New York-based N.A.G. Realty, LLC, violated the Fair Housing [...]
Posted June 24th, 2011 by Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña
Last year I visited Spokane, Washington, for a listening session on housing discrimination issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) individuals and families. After hearing a number of compelling stories, I met Mitch and Michelle, a couple with children, a family like any other. But Mitch had been denied the opportunity to add Michelle to [...]
Posted June 7th, 2011 by Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña
When President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law in 1968, the Act did not include women, families with children and people with disabilities. Since then, advocates and public officials strengthened the Act and today the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development uses these powers to prevent, combat and remedy lending discrimination against [...]
