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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 […]

Criminal Background, Arrest and Conviction Record and Fair Housing

June 12, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, Fair Housing Law, Publications | Tags: arrest record, civil rights, conviction record, criminal background, criminal background check, Disparate Impact, ex-offenders, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Harvard Law Review, HUD, John Relman, Michael Allen, Public Housing, race, racial disparity, tenancy selection, U.S. Department of Justice, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

This article was originally published in our Spring 2014 Newsletter. The United States Department of Justice advises that more than 650,000 ex-offenders are released from prison every year1, and social scientists and legal scholars now estimate up to 65,000,000 people are living with a criminal conviction in the U.S.2 A high percentage of those 65 million […]

Spring 2014 FHC Newsletter

May 28, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: criminal background, events, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, familial status, newsletter

Click here to read our latest newsletter! Highlights include: photos from of our Fair Housing Breakfast a welcome to new staff an article on the connection between criminal background issues and fair housing updates on recently settled cases If you’d like to receive the print version of this or future newsletters, please send your mailing information to info@fhcmichigan.org.

One to Watch: Seven Days

March 27, 2014 | Categories: Media | Tags: civil rights, Fair Housing Act, Martin Luther King Jr., NFHA, Seven Days

Seven Days from Animal on Vimeo. “In April of 1968, seven days changed fair housing forever.” This short film explores how MLK’s assassination triggered the passing of the Fair Housing Act. Congratulations to the National Fair Housing Alliance for its work with Nationwide Insurance and Animal production for this stunning eight-minute piece commemorating the 45th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. (Vimeo […]

FHC Staff and Complainant Talk to WKAR

February 13, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Codrington, fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Pam Kisch, WKAR

Listen now to hear an informative discussion about race and housing discrimination. WKAR Current State staff talk with FHC Executive Director Pam Kisch and previous FHC complainant Lauretta Codrington. The piece, titled “Housing discrimination pervasive but subtle,” explores the work of the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan and the compelling personal story of what housing discrimination […]

Fair Housing Breakfast

January 31, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Breakfast, event, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, fundraiser, John Relman

Please join us for a Fair Housing Breakfast with Guest Speaker John Relman on Tuesday, February 25th. Details at Fair Housing Breakfast or on the Eventbrite webpage.

Remembering Clifford Schrupp

January 17, 2014 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: Cliff Schrupp, Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion

We lost an important friend to the Fair Housing Center when Clifford Schrupp, the founder and Executive Director of the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit (FHC-Detroit), passed away on September 11, 2013. He was 74. Cliff was a national leader in fair housing enforcement. Under his direction, the FHC-Detroit aided in the filing of […]

A Matter of Place – Documentary Film on Fair Housing

December 18, 2013 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: civil rights, discrimination, Documentary, Fair Housing Justice Center, Film, movie, tester, testing

Our colleagues at the Fair Housing Justice Center in Manhattan have just released a new new film, A Matter of Place. We encourage you to watch this 30-minute, superbly crafted documentary on housing discrimination.

NPR’s This American Life Highlights Fair Housing

December 12, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, Media | Tags: Fair Housing Act, Fair Housing Justice Center, George Romney, House Rules, NPR, ProPublica, tester, testing, This American Life

This American Life recently aired a show titled “House Rules“. The piece focuses on the fair housing act, affirmatively furthering fair housing (including former Republican Governor of Michigan George Romney’s pro-integration role in fair housing), and why and how testing matters. Actual recordings from Fair Housing Justice Center testers are played.