1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans, Women, Families with Children, Race, and Persons with Disabilities Housing Fairness Act of 2017 or the Housing Fairness Act of 2017 . 2. Testing for discrimination (a) In General The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall conduct a nationwide program of testing to— (1) detect and document differences in the treatment of persons seeking to rent or purchase housing or obtain or refinance a home mortgage loan, and measure patterns of adverse treatment because of the race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin of a renter, home buyer, or borrower; and (2) measure the prevalence of such discriminatory practices across the housing and mortgage lending markets as a whole. (b) Administration The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall enter into agreements with qualified fair housing enforcement organizations, as such organizations are defined under subsection (h) of section 561 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 ( 42 U.S.C. 3616a(h) ), for the purpose of conducting the testing required under subsection (a). (c) Program requirements The Secretary shall— (1) submit to the Congress an evaluation by the Secretary of the effectiveness of the program under this section; and (2) issue regulations that require each application for the program under this section to contain— (A) a description of the assisted activities proposed to be undertaken by the applicant; (B) a description of the experience of the applicant in formulating or carrying out programs to carry out the activities described in subsection (a)