A new report by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) found that in 2018, the 50th anniversary of the landmark Fair Housing Act, the nation is moving backwards, not forwards, in the fight to guarantee equal access.  | Shutterstock

Nation faces ?unprecedented attack? on fair housing, according to National Fair Housing Alliance In 2018, Marsha Wetzel filed a report alleging she was subjected to physical abuse, slurs, and verbal threats from fellow tenants of her senior living community because she was gay. The staff at the Glen Saint Andrew Living Community in Niles, Illinois, Wetzel says, was ?apathetic to her claims,? ignoring the 70-year-old?s complaints.
Stories like Wetzel?s are becoming more widespread, according to a new report by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA). In the same year, Latino residents of the Waples Mobile Home Park in Fairfax, Virginia, were required by management to pay a $100 surcharge every month if they couldn?t prove U.S. residency. In Connecticut, potential homeowners in certain black- or Latino-majority neighborhoods had problems getting mortgages approved through local lender Liberty Bank. Over 30,000 legal cases reviewed in the ?Defending Against Unprecedented Attacks on Fair Housing? show the different forms of harassment, hate crimes, and housing discrimination?illegally restricting access to housing due to membership in a protected legal class, such a being a person of color or having a disability?currently tak...