---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 5.150"
title: "24"
number: "5.150"
heading: "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/5.150"
---

# §5.150. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Definitions.

- (a) The phrase “fair housing” in 42 U.S.C. [5304(b)(2)](/usc/42/5304.md?p=b-2), [5306(d)(7)(B)](/usc/42/5306.md?p=d-7-B), [12705(b)(15)](/usc/42/12705.md?p=b-15), and [1437c-1(d)(16)](/usc/42/1437c-1.md?p=d-16) means housing that, among other attributes, is affordable, safe, decent, free of unlawful discrimination, and accessible as required under civil rights laws.
- (b) The phrase “affirmatively further” in 42 U.S.C. [5304(b)(2)](/usc/42/5304.md?p=b-2), [5306(d)(7)(B)](/usc/42/5306.md?p=d-7-B), [12705(b)(15)](/usc/42/12705.md?p=b-15), and [1437c-1(d)(16)](/usc/42/1437c-1.md?p=d-16) means to take any action rationally related to promoting any attribute or attributes of fair housing as defined in the preceding subsection.

## Notes

### Amendments

[90 FR 11023, Mar. 3, 2025]

### Source

Source: Sections 5.150 through 5.180 appear at 80 FR 42352, July 16, 2015, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 794, 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437c-1(d), 1437d, 1437f, 1437n, 3535(d), and Sec. 327, Pub. L. 109-115, 119 Stat. 2936; 42 U.S.C. 3600-3620; 42 U.S.C. 5304(b); 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 12704-12708; E.O. 11063, 27 FR 11527, 3 CFR, 1958-1963 Comp., p. 652; E.O. 12892, 59 FR 2939, 3 CFR, 1994 Comp., p. 849.

### Authority

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1701x; 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437f, 1437n, 3535(d); 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.; 34 U.S.C. 12471 et seq.; Sec. 327, Pub. L. 109-115, 119 Stat. 2396; E.O. 13279, 67 FR 77141, 3 CFR, 2002 Comp., p. 258; E.O. 13559, 75 FR 71319, 3 CFR, 2010 Comp., p. 273; E.O. 14015, 86 FR 10007, 3 CFR, 2021 Comp., p. 517.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 5202, Feb. 9, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[90 FR 11023, Mar. 3, 2025]