A bill to provide protection for survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and sex trafficking under the Fair Housing Act.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4006 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4006 To provide protection for survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and sex trafficking under the Fair Housing Act. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 5, 2026 Mrs. Shaheen (for herself and Ms. Alsobrooks) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To provide protection for survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and sex trafficking under the Fair Housing Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Housing for Survivors Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) Cities, towns, and rural communities in the United States continue to face enormous challenges regarding domestic violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, dating violence, stalking, and other forms of intimate partner and gender-based violence. (2) One in three women and one in four men in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in his or her lifetime. (3) Intimate partner violence alone affects more than 10,000,000 people in the United States every year. (4) Among women experiencing sex trafficking, many of their traffickers are also their intimate partners. (5) Each day, an average of three women are killed by a current or former partner. (6) Researchers estimate that domestic violence costs employers up to $8,300,000,000 each year, and that sexual violence results in more than $122,000 in lifetime costs per survivor and nearly $3,100,000,000,000 in costs to the United States economy acr