; Whereas September 13, 2023, will mark the 35th anniversary of the congressional passage of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988; Whereas the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, passed by overwhelming margins in Congress, included protection on the basis of familial status and disability, created an important enforcement mechanism, and expanded the definition of discriminatory housing practices to include interference and intimidation, requiring HUD to issue regulations to implement and interpret the Fair Housing Act and report annually to Congress on the nature and extent of housing discrimination; Whereas the intent of Congress in passing the Fair Housing Act was broad and inclusive, to advance equal opportunity in housing and achieve racial integration for the benefit of all people in the United States; Whereas the intent of Congress in passing the Fair Housing Act was to prohibit discrimination in all housing and housing-related transactions, including policies or practices that appear superficially neutral, but have a discriminatory effect on protected classes; Whereas the Supreme Court has reaffirmed the use of the disparate impact doctrine to challenge policies or practices that have a discriminatory effect on protected classes; Whereas the majority of large metropolitan areas in the United States are more racially segregated today than in 1990; Whereas research shows that, in some cases, the placement of housing funded through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, which is the single largest source of Federal funding for the creation of affordable housing in the United States, further entrenches racial residential segregation, despite the Fair Housing Act requiring that Federal housing funds be used to affirmatively undo patterns of residential segregation