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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.

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.

$20,000 to Monroe Mom in Housing Settlement

December 7, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, familial status, Monroe, Tomkowiak

Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan (877) 979-FAIR, info@fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Contact: FHC Executive Dir. Pam Kisch, (734) 994-3426; Attorney Steve Tomkowiak (248) 543-1600 MONROE MICHIGAN MOM SETTLES NEW DISCRIMINATION SUIT FOR $20,000 MONROE, MICHIGAN — Cicily Pippens of Monroe, Michigan has settled her housing discrimination law suit against […]

Eviction of Domestic Violence Survivor Must Be Stopped

December 6, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News, Press Release | Tags: ACLU of Michigan, Domestic Violence, Inkster Housing Commission, sex, sex discrimination

On December 4, 2013, we sent a joint letter with the ACLU of Michigan, to the Director of the Inkster Housing Commission, urging for the eviction proceedings against FHC complainant Allison Ben to be dropped. The Housing Commission was planning to evict Ms. Ben because she was ‘disturbing the peace’ by calling the police when […]

Pippens v Trkula

November 14, 2013 | Categories: About FHC | Tags:

#W13-06 Pippens v Trkula Monroe #W13-06 Pippens v Trkula was settled on November 14, 2013. Cicily Pippens accepted $20,000 to settle her familial status complaint against Mildred Trkula. FHC testing supported Cicily Pippens’ claim of discrimination. Ms. Trkula must attend fair housing training and a lien is placed on her properties until the settlement is paid in full. FHC Cooperating […]