The Fair Housing Act (the “FHA”) prohibits housing discrimination because of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex (which includes both gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, familial status, or national origin. The most obvious form of housing discrimination is an action, omission, or policy that is intended to discriminate on the basis of one of these protected classes; however, after the FHA was enacted, federal courts also held that housing discrimination could occur through indirect, and sometimes unintentional, “discriminatory effects.” In 2013, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) codified this form of housing discrimination under the FHA as the “Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Discriminatory Effects Standard,” which we will refer to as the “Discriminatory Effects Rule.”   Read the article…………………………….