Section 1 Short title
This resolution may be cited as the “Original Fair Housing Resolution of 2023”.
Promoting and supporting the goals and ideals of the Fair Housing Act and recognizing April 2023 as “Fair Housing Month”, which includes bringing attention to the discrimination faced by everyday Americans in the United States in housing and housing-related transactions on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status, disability, and religion.
RESOLUTION
Promoting and supporting the goals and ideals of the Fair Housing Act and recognizing April 2023 as Fair Housing Month, which includes bringing attention to the discrimination faced by everyday Americans in the United States in housing and housing-related transactions on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status, disability, and religion.
Sec. 2 Support for fair housing act
The House of Representatives—
supports the goals and values of the 55th anniversary of the enactment of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) and the 35th anniversary of the enactment of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–430; 102 Stat. 1619);
supports efforts to expand, strengthen, and increase fair housing enforcement, education, and protections, including robust funding for enforcement and to fully staff the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity and an expansion of fair housing rights to include Federal source of income protections;
supports activities to recognize and celebrate the important historical milestones represented by the anniversaries of the enactments of the Fair Housing Act and the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988; and
encourages all people, every level of government, and each Federal agency to rededicate themselves to the enforcement and the ideals of the Fair Housing Act and supporting civil rights laws.