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:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion to Establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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 […]
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Mobile home park sued after Fair Housing Center finds discrimination BY DAVID ASHENFELTER DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Cassandra Kraehnke says she didn’t pay much attention in 2009 when a rental agent at a Monroe County mobile home park refused to let her move in because she was expecting a second child. But when Kraehnke discovered […]
Study of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, released June 6, 2011 Foreward (from the study) This evaluation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP) is the first major study of the program in 15 years. The study confirms that FHIP funding is a critical component of the U.S. civil […]