National Fair Housing Alliance wants feds to crack down on discrimination - Boston Business Journal:

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The based in Washington, said that while discrimination is among the highest in historyg inmortgage lending, the investigated only four complaints last and the handled just one mortgage At the same time, HUD handled 60 fair lending complaints in 2008 comparedd to the 1,500 processed by private fair housinv centers. “Fair housing advocatee have been warning the federal governmen t fora decade, to no avail, about the damagr that abusive lending would bring,” said Shanna president and chief executive of NFHA, in a “For too long, HUD and the Justiced Department have stood by while people and neighborhoods of colorf have been targeted for predatory loans and stripped of equity.
As we look forwarrd to working with the new administration to bringf in an eraof change, the change must beginn with HUD’s and Justice’s fair housing enforcement The 17 percent jump was to privat groups, and represented only 66 percent of national NFHA said its research has found. HUD took on 2,123 fair housing complaints last year while local agencies handled Also fueling housing discrimination are advertisements found on the The NFHA said it filed more than 350 complaint based onInternet ads, HUD did not use its subpoenq power to find those who were posting such ads.
Most of the ads discriminatee against familieswith children, NFHA officials