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Save the Date: March 25, 2015- a Fair Housing Breakfast

January 12, 2015 | Categories: About FHC | Tags:

Please join us for our 2nd Annual Fair Housing Breakfast. The event will be held on Wednesday, March 25th from 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM at the Campus Inn in downtown Ann Arbor. Mark your calendars now and plan to join us in March! Sponsorship opportunities and individual tickets are available now. Email Kristen at kcuhran@fhcmichigan.org with […]


African-American Family Hopes for Justice in Fair Housing Case

January 5, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, Fair Housing Law, Press Release | Tags: Civil Rights Act, color, Fair Housing Act, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, race, Tomkowiak, Ypsilanti Township

The Fair Housing Center has aided in the filing of a race discrimination lawsuit against a property in Ypsilanti Township, MI. The lawsuit alleges that a white tenant attacked a black teenager, yet the black family faced eviction within two days of the incident, while the white family did not receive an eviction notice until after […]


Cast Your Vote! FHC Name Change

December 1, 2014 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, name change

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Sign Up for AmazonSmile and Help Support the FHC

October 22, 2014 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: donate, fundraising, gift, giving

Looking for an easy way to donate to the Fair Housing Center? We’re now participating in AmazonSmile, a program run by the web retailer to donate 0.5% of the price of eligible


FHC Awarded Nearly $1,000,000 to Fight Housing Discrimination

October 20, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHIP, funding, grant, HUD, Michigan, Michigan fair housing centers, PEI-MYC, Private Enforcement Initiative, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

On October 15, 2014, the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan received notice of a three-year grant totaling $974,832 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban


Wheelchair User Fights Back: Federal Lawsuit Filed

October 1, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, Press Release | Tags: disability, discrimination, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Federal Court, Hartland, Hartland Meadows, lawsuit, Livingston County, Tomkowiak

Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan (877) 979-FAIR, info@fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Discrimination Lawsuit Filed: Wheelchair User Demands Sidewalk Access Tuesday, September 30, 2014


Interested in housing issues?

September 16, 2014 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: Ann Arbor, fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, housing advocates training, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, Michigan Poverty Law Program, training

Interested in housing issues? Work at a community organization? Eager to learn more about landlord/tenant, fair housing, and government housing programs? You are invited


Racial Dot Map

July 24, 2014 | Categories: Media, News | Tags: census, census data, cooper center, demographics, race

Demographic researchers at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have used the 2010 Census Block Data to produce an interactive map that plots a dot for every person in


Ann Arbor Housing Advocates Training Registration Now Open

July 18, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Ann Arbor, fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHC, housing advocates training, Legal Services, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, LSSCM, Michigan Poverty Law Program, MPLP, welfare policy seminar

Registration is now open for Housing Advocates Training on September 23 and 24th, 2014, and a Welfare Policy Seminar in the afternoon of the 24th. Both workshops are in Ann Arbor. HAT is designed to help social service workers gain a working knowledge of fair housing law, landlord/tenant law, and housing subsidy programs. WPS focuses on the Department […]


Maternity Leave and Mortgage Discrimination

July 8, 2014 | Categories: Fair Housing Law, News | Tags: Fair Housing Act, familial status, HUD, maternity leave, mortgage, mortgage discrimination, pregnancy, sex, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

In June 2011 we shared with you HUD’s press release on their landmark actions concerning maternity leave and mortgage denials or delays. That press release included the Dr. Elizabeth Budde case, which is considered to be the impetus for the flurry of maternity leave/mortgage settlements now occurring across the nation. According to the HUDdle, Dr. Budde, a Seattle-area oncologist, had been […]


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