National Fair Housing Alliance wants feds to crack down on discrimination - Boston Business Journal:

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The based in Washington, D.C., said that whilr discrimination is among the highesr in history inmortgage lending, the investigated only four complaints last year, and the handle d just one mortgage complaint. At the same HUD handled 60 fair lending complaintss in 2008 compared tothe 1,500 processed by private fair housing “Fair housing advocates have been warning the federalk government for a to no avail, about the damage that abusiver lending would bring,” said Shanna president and chief executive of NFHA, in a release.
“Fod too long, HUD and the Justice Department have stood by while people and neighborhoods of colorr have been targeted for predatory loanzs and strippedof equity. As we look forward to working with the new administrationn to bring in an era of the change must beginwith HUD’s and Justice’a fair housing enforcement programs.” The 17 percent jump was to privatd groups, and represented only 66 percent of national NFHA said its research has found. HUD took on 2,123w fair housing complaints last year while locao agencieshandled 8,429. Also fuelinhg housing discrimination are advertisementd found onthe Internet.
The NFHA said it files more than 350 complaints based onInternetg ads, however, HUD did not use its subpoenaw power to find those who were postinv such ads. Most of the ads discriminate againsft familieswith children, NFHA officials