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2 <br /> PROCLAMATION <br /> WHEREAS April, 1993 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Title VIII of the Civil Rights <br /> Act of 1968, the Federal Fair Housing Act, which provided for equal <br /> opportunity for all Americans in the sale, rental and financing of housing and <br /> prohibited housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, <br /> age or national origin; and <br /> WHEREAS the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 added familial status and <br /> handicap to those classes protected by Title VIII and added strong new <br /> rights, remedies, monetary penalties and judicial and administrative <br /> enforcement procedures; and <br /> WHEREAS numerous studies have shown that housing discrimination is as pervasive, <br /> if not more so, than in 1968, and far more insidious than ever before; and <br /> WHEREAS illegal barriers to equal opportunity in housing that diminish the rights of <br /> some of our citizens diminish the rights of all; <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> proclaim the month of April, 1993 as FAIR HOUSING MONTH commend this observance <br /> and related activities to all Orange County citizens. <br /> Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />