Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In the United States, the phrase fair housing dates back to the 1960s. It refers to a political movement of the time to outlaw discrimination in the rental or purchase of homes. At the urging of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Congress passed a federal Fair Housing Act in April 1968 only one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.