For more than 45 years, courts have recognized two categories of discrimination prohibited under the Fair Housing Act 1968: acts that are clearly intentional, and policies and practices that do not have a stated intent to discriminate but that have the effect of discriminating against the Act’s protected classes of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability. On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the disparate impact standard in housing discrimination in a 5-4 decision ruling on Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v The Inclusive Communities Project