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Followup Enforcement Testing Initiative
Housing Discrimination Study (HDS)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is responsible for enforcing the Fair Housing Act and remedying discriminatory housing practices. As such, HUD sponsored the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS) 2000, a national audit testing research study that reported on the results of 4,600 matched-paired tests in 23 metropolitan areas nationwide. The purpose of the study was to determine the level and extent of discrimination in the rental and real estate sales market faced by Blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and American Indians. Because of a previous HUD study conducted in 1989, the results of HDS provided a means of measuring how housing discrimination changed in just over a decade.
HUD contracted with DB Consulting to conduct non-research enforcement testing as a followup to the HDS study. Additionally, DB is to provide education and outreach activities in the same regions where HDS testing occurred: Southeast Caribbean, Midwest, and Southwest regions of the United States. HUD will utilize the results to initiate administrative enforcement proceedings under the Fair Housing Act, as amended.
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