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National Civil Rights Groups Applaud Department of Education, Department of Justice

December 5, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: ACLU, civil rights, Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP, PRRAC, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Justice

Press Release – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Civil Rights Groups: School Diversity Guidance “Good for Our Young People, for Our Communities and for Our Nation” For Immediate Release Contact: Scott Westbrook Simpson, 202.466.2061, simpson@civilrights.org December 2, 2011 Washington, DC – In response to the joint guidance released today by the United States Department of Education […]

Civil Rights Testers Needed: Paid or Volunteer

November 18, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: tester, testing, training

[Information on our current testing program can be found at Become a Civil Rights Tester ] The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan has a tester training scheduled for Monday, December 5, 2011, 530-730 PM in Ann Arbor. We are seeking women and men to assist in the investigation of housing discrimination complaints (“testing”) in Ingham, Jackson, […]

FHC Coordinator of Investigations Interviewed on WHMI, 93.5

November 3, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHC, housing advocates training, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, Livingston Diversity Council, LSSCM, Michigan Poverty Law Program, MPLP

Coordinator of Investigations, Kristen Cuhran, was interviewed by WHMI 93.5 on 11/1/2011 about Housing Advocates Training. The synopsis of the radio interview is also below:

NAACP, ACLU, HRC, NFHA and Many More Sign on to HOME Letter

October 19, 2011 | Categories: Fair Housing Law, News | Tags: ACLU, Fair Housing Act, gender, HOME, HRC, marital status, NAACP, sexual orientation, source of income

Read the sign on letter supporting the Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) legislation, introduced by Senator John Kerry on September 22, 2011. The sign on letter is one of strong support by various housing and civil rights organizations across the country, including the NAACP, ACLU, HRC, and NFHA. The Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act […]

White House Blog Mentions 2007 FHC Same Sex Study

October 14, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Publications | Tags: blog, gender identity, gender non-conforming, HUD, Kenneth J. Carroll, LGBT, sexual orientation, Transgender, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, White House

In a White House blog post today Kenneth J. Carroll, Director of the Fair Housing Assistance Program Division at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), announced new and recent steps that HUD has taken to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons have equal access to housing with special attention […]

FHC Southeast Awarded $275,765.00 to Enforce Fair Housing Act

October 6, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan (FHC) was one of 84 fair housing centers or nonprofits throughout the country to receive a funding award. The awards are funded through HUD’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) and will be used to investigate allegations of housing discrimination, and […]

New Protections Proposed for LGBT Individuals

September 26, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: civil rights, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, gender, gender identity, HUD, LGBT, marital status, sexual orientation, source of income, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Advocate.com Kerry, Nadler Propose Fair Housing Bill for LGBTs The Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act, or HOME Act, would amend existing federal law to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing and credit. By Andrew Harmon Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts has introduced federal legislation to expressly prohibit anti-LGBT […]

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Forming in Metro Detroit

September 22, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, housing, race

Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion to Establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission

FHC Newsletter Just Released!

September 21, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Publications | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, newsletter

The Fair Housing Center’s September 2011 newsletter is out! What’s Inside? Michigan’s same-sex study gets National attention, page 4 Child with a disability receives a safe place to play, page 1 February 17, 2012 FHC turns TWENTY!, page 1 Illegal “one-child” policy stopped, page 2 Print copies will be arriving in the mail in the […]

Tester Training Scheduled

September 8, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: tester, training

Wednesday, 9/14, 10am -12pm, downtown Ann Arbor. Call us for further information: 1-877-979-FAIR.