Responding to the lack of equal opportunity in housing for minority residents throughout the country, the federal government, in Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, made it "the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limits, for fair housing throughout the United States." Discrimination based an race, color, religion, sex or national origin in the sale, rental and financing of housing throughout the country is expressly prohibited. Among the major efforts undertaken by the federal government to expand housing choices was the adoption in 1972 of Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing (AFHM) Regulations by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

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