Join the National Fair Housing Training Academy (NFHTA) and the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) in a conversation focusing on post-COVID mortgage forbearance options and ways to prevent discriminatory foreclosures. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate negative effect on homeowners of color. As the federal moratorium protecting homeowners from foreclosure expires, the resulting loss of home ownership will have devastating financial implications for these families for generations. In addition, many homeowners of color do not have loans that fell under the foreclosure moratorium and have not had access to the same loss mitigation options.

This forum will contain information about housing assistance programs and loss mitigation strategies that may help prevent foreclosures; specify how a foreclosure may violate fair housing laws; and provide resources and tools that fair housing practitioners, attorneys, and housing counselors can utilize to prevent discriminatory foreclosures.

Learning Objectives

Forum participants will:

• Know more about the fair housing foreclosure effects of the pandemic on people of color and others in protected classes.

• Know the current status of the federal foreclosure moratorium.

• Know more about current foreclosure and loss mitigation assistance programs.

• Understand the legal standards for combating foreclosure as a fair housing violation.

• Have tools to stop foreclosures that violate fair housing laws.

• Know more about potential partnerships between FHIP and FHAP agencies and local legal aid and housing counseling organizations.

Who Should Attend?

This forum is targeted to Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) organizations, Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) agencies, Housing Counseling Agencies, legal services providers, and other interested fair housing partners.