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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 […]

FHC Launches New Ad Campaign

September 27, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: advertising, fair housing center of southeastern michigan

FHC Launches New Ad Campaign

April FHC Book Groups Meet Next Week- June and August Readings Selected!

April 20, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: book group, FHC

Reading is fun! Talking about what you’ve read with others face to face= even more fun. Here is what we’re reading: 1) The Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle April 24 (A2) & April 25 (Lansing) 2) Them by Nathan McCall June 26 (A2) & June 27 (Lansing) 3) To Kill A Mockingbird by […]

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:

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 […]

Mobile Home Park Sued After Fair Housing Center Finds Discrimination

July 18, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: familial status, Monroe, pregnancy

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 […]

Historical Moment Video: The Signing of the Fair Housing Act, April 11, 1968

April 12, 2011 | Categories: Media | Tags: Fair Housing Act, fair housing month, President Johnson, video

April 11, 1968: LBJ signs federal Fair Housing Act

Young Adult Fiction for Fair Housing Month

April 5, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Media | Tags: books, fair housing, fair housing month, youth

April is Fair Housing Month! The FHC-SE suggests these book titles for young readers.

Children’s Books for Fair Housing Month

April 4, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Media | Tags: books, Children, fair housing, fair housing month, youth

April is Fair Housing Month. The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan has compiled a of fair housing related books for children.

FHC Director Pam Kisch presents at Creating Change Conference

February 22, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: civil rights, Creating Change conference, HUD, LGBT, Pam Kisch, sexual orientation

On February 9, 2011, Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan Director Pamela Kisch, along with Kenneth J. Carroll, Director of HUD’s Fair Housing Assistance Program Division, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity presented at “Creating Change“- the 23rd National Conference on LGBT Equality.

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