Housing Discrimination Website

Because of the theme "equality" given to us by the ANITAHACKS leaders, we decided to think a little out of the box. While gender equality and racial equality are both important issues to address, we decided to address housing equality because it is less known to the general public and is still an issue today.

Our website provides basic background information on what Housing Discrimination is, and we have decent ideas for how we could improve it in the future (analyzing data trends and using AI).

We used HTML from repl.it and we used certain style tags to make our website a little more visually appealing (CSS).

None of us had much coding experience (other than block coding, for example from scratch.mit.edu), so it was challenging to figure out how to use HTML. But the Web Development workshop was very helpful, and we also used online resources that teach the public how to use HTML tags. Our main challenge was to insert an image into HTML code, but once we understood the syntax we figured it out.

I'm proud that we managed to make our own website from scratch (not using Google Sites, Wix.com, etc.). It's not very functional but it does present background information.

We learned how to code basic HTML code to generate a basic website.

Some of our ideas for our website in the future are for our program to collect data from all country public records that are available online and then do analytics on them to see if there are patterns. Another idea is that we can train AI to look for trends and then use the results as charts to inform the public and policy makers. This same technology could also be used to figure out where healthcare and education are being underserved.

This is our code: <! DOCTYPE html>

<h1 style="color:blue" style="text-decoration:underline"  > Housing Discrimination </h1>

<p> This website is about housing equality. Even after the Fair Housing Act was established in 1968, housing discrimination
    still remains a problem today. </p>

<h2 style="color:rgb(199, 26, 255)"> What is housing discrimination? </h2>
<p> Housing discrimination is the illegal practice of discriminating against buyers or renters of dwellings based on race,
    color, religion, national origin, gender, family status or disability. </p>


<h2 style="color:rgb(199, 26, 255)"> Types of Discriminatory Acts Prohibited by the Fair Housing Act
</h2>
<p>
    <ul style="list-style-type:circle;">
        <li>Refusal to sell/rent/negotiate housing</li>
        <li>Making housing unavailable to certain applicants</li>
        <li>Offering different terms/conditions to different applicants</li>
        <li>Persuading others to sell/rent their properties for a profit</li>
        <li>Refusal to make a loan</li>
        <li>Refusal to provide information on a loan</li>
        <li>Imposing different rates for different applicants regardless of credit score and other tangible factors</li>
        <li>Discrimination in appraisal or valuation</li>
    </ul>

</p>

<h2 style="color:rgb(199, 26, 255)"> Housing Discrimination Today </h2>

<p> According to the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) there were a total of 28,843 complaints of housing discrimination
    in the USA. Out of those complaints, <ul style="list-style-type:circle;">
        <li>57% were based on disability</li>
        <li>19% were based on race</li>
        <li>9% were based on familial status</li>
        <li>7% were based on national origin</li>
        <li>7% were based on gender</li>
        <li>1.4% were based on color</li>
        <li>1.3% were based on religion</li>
        <li>8% were based on other state/local protection</li>
    </ul>

  <img/ src="Housing Discrimination.JPG" alt: "Housing Discrimination" width="250" height="250">

</p>
<h2 style="color:rgb(199, 26, 255)"> More statistics </h2>

<p>
    <ul style="list-style-type:circle;">
        <li>Since 1988, dozens of cases alleging redling and discrimination by mortgage lenders have resulted in nearly $1 billion
            in compensation to victims of mortgage lending and for investment in communities</li>
        <li>Since 1991, more than 70,000 units of multi-family housing have been made accessible to disabled people</li>
        <li>More than half a million complaints have been filed since 1996</li>
        <li>There were more than 28,843 complaints of housing discrimination in 2017</li>

<h2 style="color:rgb(199, 26, 255)"> Example of Housing Discrimination </h2>

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• css
• html
• repl.it