ACLU Supporter, few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair and stable housing.

When Martin Luther King Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle to obtain decent housing with the need to end what he called slum schools, work, health care, and all forms of racial segregation.

Today, fair housing remains the key to addressing deepening income inequality and forced displacement from our communities. We've experienced that reality most glaringly in the wake of the housing crash of 2008 and during the COVID-19 pandemic – both of which had outsized economic impacts on communities of color.

So today, we're breaking it down. Please dive in now with our explainer on fair housing and the ongoing fight for systemic equality.