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B-164855 1 (1977-08-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagvh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLJR GENERAL OF THE UITED STAS ....... 8-164855 AUG 16 197 cED7-435 The Honorable Don Edwards Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights . House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter of April 12, 1977, requested our comments on title II of H.R. 3504, 95th Congress. If enacted, title II would be cited as the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1977. *ection 206(c) would add section 804(f) to the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Pub. L. 90-284, 82 stat. 73 (April 11, 1968)4 toprohibit a person in the business of insuring against hazards to refuse to enter into a contract of insurance for a dwelling because of the race, color, or national origin of per- sons residing in or near the dwelling. Section 206(e) would amend section 805 of that act (42 U.S.C. sec. 3605 (1970)) to prohibit discrimination' by banks, building and loan associa- tions, insurance companies, or other corporations, associations, firms, or enterprises in the business of making commercial real estate loans to deny loans or financial assistance because of the neighborhood of th dwelling or dwellings. Both of these sections appear to prohibit what has been commonly referred to as redlining. We believe that these sections would be more easily understood if the term redlining were used and the term was defined as the denial of insurance, loans, and other financial assistance solely on the basis of the racial composition of the neighborhood in which the dwellings are located. Section 206(d) would amend sections 804, 805, and 806 of the act (42 U.S.C. sec. 3604-06 (1970)) by adding handicaps as a prohibitive basis for discrimination. To be consistent with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C sec. 1691 et. seq. (Supp. V, 1975)), this section should be expanded to incrude marital status, age, and source of applicant's income. T T,

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