S. 2549 · 117th Congress
Mapping Housing Discrimination Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Tina Smith
- Introduced
- 2021-07-29
- Latest action
- 2021-07-29 · Introduced in Senate
Summary
Mapping Housing Discrimination Act
This bill provides grants to institutions of higher education to analyze, digitize, and map historic housing discrimination records. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research must use data submitted by institutions under the bill to create a publicly available national database of historic housing discrimination records.
Historic housing discrimination records are (1) deeds or historic property records that demonstrate housing discrimination, or (2) state or local ordinances that permitted housing discrimination.