16.9 - NONDISCRIMINATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.
16.9 NONDISCRIMINATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.
1. Housing financed or otherwise assisted by the authority,
directly or indirectly, shall be open to all persons regardless of
race, creed, color, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental
impairment, or religion except that preference may be given to
elderly families, families which include one or more persons with
disabilities, lower income families, or very low income families.
2. The authority shall promote marketing plans to make housing
available to all persons without discrimination.
3. The authority shall require adoption and submission of an
affirmative action program for employment by all contractors and
subcontractors of housing financed or otherwise assisted by the
authority.
4. The authority shall require all mortgage lenders who
participate in programs financed or otherwise assisted by it to agree
that they will not designate certain areas as unsuitable for the
making of mortgage loans because of the prevailing income, racial,
ethnic, or other characteristics of the inhabitants of the area. This
subsection is intended to prohibit all mortgage lenders who
participate in authority programs from engaging in the practice
commonly known as "redlining".
5. The authority may require mortgage lenders who participate in
programs financed or otherwise assisted by the authority to take
affirmative action to make mortgage loans in areas with a higher than
average concentration of lower income families or members of racial
or ethnic minorities. Section History: Early Form
[C77, 79, 81, § 220.9] Section History: Recent Form
C93, § 16.9
96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113