Huge News! Our steadfast leader and founder of the Fair Housing Center, Pamela A. Kisch, is retiring. Pam began working in fair housing in the late 1980s as a graduate student at the University of Michigan. She found her passion at a fair housing internship in Chicago, then took a job at the Fair Housing […]
To The Editor: “Disabled Vet Homeless without Wheelchair Ramp” “Landlord Gets Away with Sexually Harassing Tenants” “Landlord Rents Only to White Families” “Elderly Mother Injured after Apartment Rejects Son’s Request for Grab Bars” Because of the Michigan Fair Housing Centers, these are the headlines you did not see. We get ramps built, put sexual harassers […]
As a grantee of HUD’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program, the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan’s ability to continue enforcing the Federal Fair Housing Act is in jeopardy. President Trump’s proposed FY2026 budget cuts ALL funding to nonprofit fair housing enforcement organizations like ours. Without this funding, tens of thousands of people will […]
Great news for renters’ fair housing rights: as of April 2, 2025, Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) prohibits discrimination in rental housing based on source of income. According to ELCRA, source of income includes benefits or subsidy programs such as housing assistance, Housing Choice Vouchers, public assistance, veterans’ benefits, child support, alimony, Social Security, Supplemental Security […]
As a renter, the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) provides you protection, equal opportunity, and the right to discrimination-free housing on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, familial status, sex, and disability. In Michigan, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) gives you additional housing protections for age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity […]
Thank you to everyone who donated, sponsored, volunteered, and attended the 9th Annual Fair Housing Breakfast. Thanks to your generosity, we raised over $38,000 to stop illegal housing discrimination and promote accessible, integrated Michigan communities! We found Bryan’s talk to be both inspiring and invigorating in the work for equal housing opportunities. We hope you feel encouraged to lean even further […]
6/14/2022 We are very pleased to announce we have received funding from the United Way of Washtenaw County’s Community Impact Fund. We were awarded a multi-year, general operating support grant in the amount of $37,500.00 annually. The grant period for this grant is three years- July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2025. Thank you, United Way of […]
A note from our Associate Director, 4/29/2022 You may know that April is National Fair Housing Month, when advocates across the country celebrate the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968. We’re reminded each April of the hard work and sacrifices made before us that allow us to continue the fight toward ending […]
We are pleased to announce that a new fair housing disability discrimination lawsuit was settled in the Eastern District of Michigan by FHC Cooperating Attorney Daniel Gwinn. Our complainant accepted a monetary settlement and was given her reserved accessible parking space and sign. This is the first FHC-aided fair housing complaint in Shiawassee County. “Settlement reached after elderly woman […]
This month the nation celebrates the 52nd anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. This landmark civil rights legislation was the result of years of individual and collective struggle against discrimination in sales, rental, financing and other housing-related transactions. The Act now protects the buyer or renter of a dwelling from discrimination based on race, color, […]