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Interview With HUD Enforcement Division Spokesman - HUD Monitoring the Internet for Fair Housing Violations
After several weeks of telephone tag and email exchanges, I was granted a telephone interview today with Bryan Greene, HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Enforcement Division in Washington, D.C.
I had earlier forwarded by email a list of questions for HUD that were submitted by Active Rain members in mid-September.  The HUD official had the opportunity to look these over and therefore he was prepared for my questions in advance.
Since so many of the questions from AR members were anecdotal, Bryan suggested that all questions related to specific incidents or how to deal with a specific request from a consumer should be directed to the HUD Discrimination Hotline, at 1-800-669-9777.  An inquiry may also be directed to the HUD website for answers, at www.hud.gov/fairhousing.
During the course of our interview, the HUD official brought up the following points:
HUD is actively watching the Web, looking for instances of non-compliance with Fair Housing Laws.  Mr. Greene said "if we see violations on the Web, or if violations are reported to us, we investigate".  He mentioned that there is currently a pending investigation of a real estate company which is allegedly involved in religious discrimination.  The information behind that investigation came from the Internet. HUD expects real ... more

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