{"id":10843,"date":"2025-01-13T22:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T03:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:58:45","slug":"2025-policy-roadmap-offers-solutions-to-the-nations-fair-and-affordable-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/2025-policy-roadmap-offers-solutions-to-the-nations-fair-and-affordable-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Policy Roadmap Offers Solutions to the Nation\u2019s Fair and Affordable Housing Crisis\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><strong>\u202f<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">January 13, 2025<strong>\u202f<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong>\u202f<a href=\"mailto:NFHA@skdknick.com\">NFHA@skdknick.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><strong>2025 Policy Roadmap Offers Solutions to the Nation\u2019s Fair and Affordable Housing Crisis<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><em>Focus on Safeguarding Civil Rights and Advancing Fair Housing, Equitable Opportunities, and Thriving Communities<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014<\/strong><strong>\u202f<\/strong>The National Fair Housing Alliance\u00ae (NFHA\u2122)\u202freleased its policy priorities for the 119<sup>th<\/sup> Congress and incoming Trump Administration to solve the nation\u2019s fair and affordable housing crisis, ensure fair and equitable housing opportunities for all, and promote a stronger economy. These policy priorities are organized into four categories:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"content-wrap-item post__list post__list-undefined wp-block-list\" value=\"\">\n<li>Preserve checks and balances;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Protect established rights and freedoms;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote fair and affordable housing for all households and communities; and\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support robust civil rights protections for automated systems, including artificial intelligence (AI).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">\u201cBy ensuring everyone can fairly access opportunity, we open the doors to individual advancement and enhance our collective prosperity. Our nation\u2019s fair housing and lending laws, including the Fair Housing Act, promise everyone access to a safe and affordable home near well-resourced schools, reliable transportation and internet, healthy foods, quality healthcare, fresh air, clean water, and living-wage jobs,\u201d said NFHA\u2019s Executive Vice President, Nikitra Bailey. \u201cThese laws were intended to remove all barriers to equitable housing and lending opportunities so all people could have a fair chance at the American Dream. Unfortunately, today\u2019s record-high housing costs continue to drive inflation and strain the budgets of everyday people, pushing hundreds of thousands into homelessness. Discriminatory housing and lending practices are not relics of the past. Moreover, bias in our markets is not a bug, but a feature driven by rapidly evolving algorithms that are entrenching racial and economic inequality. By eliminating the distortions that bias inflicts upon markets, we can ensure they operate fairly and efficiently to build a world where a person\u2019s zip code does not determine their outcome in life.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Summary of policy priorities:\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"content-wrap-item post__list post__list-undefined wp-block-list\" value=\"\">\n<li>Defending the independence of federal agencies and their ability to enforce our nation\u2019s fair housing and fair lending laws;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Protecting established rights by upholding the Fair Housing Act\u2019s longstanding prohibition on housing discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, and sex, and opposing policies and practices that have a discriminatory effect;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promoting fair and affordable housing through first-generation down payment assistance, federal tax credits for home development in distressed neighborhoods, and other equity programs to assist people with less access to homeownership\u2019s wealth building opportunities, inclusive housing, fair and consistent appraisals, and source of income protections;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promoting fair access to lines of credit and equitable lending through new credit score models, appraisal reform, and the preservation of the mortgage servicing reforms adopted during the COVID pandemic;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensuring all communities have access to climate mitigation efforts and insurance that is fairly priced and adapted to climate change; and\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensuring a robust civil rights framework for responsible housing-related AI systems is adopted through federal and state legislation and rulemaking, as well as private sector policies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">The full description of NFHA\u2019s policy priorities can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/kihoCxkNmyiPG5zHWugSyHG6l\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">The 2025 policy priorities are informed by NFHA\u2019s\u202f2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/FE7gCG67EAt2yN6fPUqSBMPrk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fair Housing Trends Report<\/a>, which highlights the economic and personal devastation housing and lending discrimination causes to people of color, women, people with disabilities, families with children, and more. These harmful practices impact the American economy through underperformance and make our nation less productive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><strong>About the National Fair Housing Alliance<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">The National Fair Housing Alliance\u00ae (NFHA\u2122) is the country\u2019s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and ensuring equal opportunities for all people. As the trade association for over 170 fair housing and justice-centered organizations and individuals throughout the U.S. and its territories, NFHA works to dismantle longstanding barriers to equity and build diverse, inclusive, well-resourced communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u202f&nbsp; January 13, 2025\u202f&nbsp; Media Contact:\u202fNFHA@skdknick.com&nbsp; 2025 Policy Roadmap Offers Solutions to the Nation\u2019s Fair and Affordable Housing Crisis\u00a0 Focus on Safeguarding Civil Rights and Advancing Fair Housing, Equitable Opportunities, and Thriving Communities&nbsp; Washington, D.C. \u2014\u202fThe National Fair Housing Alliance\u00ae (NFHA\u2122)\u202freleased its policy priorities for the 119th Congress and incoming Trump Administration to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2025 Policy Roadmap Offers Solutions to the Nation\u2019s Fair and Affordable Housing Crisis\u00a0 - NFHA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u202f&nbsp; 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