Sentence examples for furthering fair from inspiring English sources
It is about doing something to end deeply embedded segregation patterns — "affirmatively furthering fair housing," as federal law and the settlement explicitly require.
Westchester County, New York, has been mired for years in a legal battle with HUD, thanks to a lawsuit claiming that the county misled the government by accepting HUD funding without affirmatively furthering fair housing.
Together, the hearings must address housing and community development needs, development of proposed activities, proposed strategies and actions for affirmatively furthering fair housing consistent with the AFH, and a review of program performance.
Thus, although the Fair Housing Act's main provision was an individualistic tort solution to discrimination, it went further, and called on the HUD and other federal agencies to "administer the programs and activities relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively furthering" fair housing.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has begun the formal process of revamping the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development effectively suspended the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule on May 18.
(1) The jurisdiction shall consult with local PHAs operating in the jurisdiction regarding consideration of public housing needs, planned programs and activities, the AFH, strategies for affirmatively furthering fair housing, and proposed actions to affirmatively further fair housing in the consolidated plan.
This consultation will help provide a better basis for the jurisdiction's AFH, its certification to affirmatively further fair housing, and other portions of the consolidated plan concerning affirmatively furthering fair housing.
Constricted mobility patterns like this show the value of HUD's redoubled effort to affirmatively further fair housing.
The group said the county was obliged, in return for federal funds, to take steps to "further fair housing".
The lawsuit also charges that the county made a false claim when it certified that the communities had met the demands of the Fair Housing Act, which include a requirement to "affirmatively further" fair housing.
