Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations and Discriminatory Effect

Summary

The bill lets Maryland’s Department of Housing and Community Development adopt rules to actively promote fair housing and requires local governments and housing authorities to submit fair‑housing assessments. It defines “discriminatory effect” and makes a wide range of housing‑related discriminatory practices illegal, even if there was no intent to discriminate. The law also sets up civil‑rights enforcement through the Commission on Civil Rights, including conciliation, lawsuits, damages and injunctions.

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