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New Fair Housing Rule

July 16, 2015 | Categories: Fair Housing Law, News | Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, President Obama, White House

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released a final rule regarding the Fair Housing Act’s provisions to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). The rule includes tools that will make it easier for communities to identify and overcome segregation, concentrated poverty, and other barriers to equal housing opportunity. President Obama spoke about the rule and its importance in his weekly […]

Supreme Court Saves Fair Housing Act

June 29, 2015 | Categories: Fair Housing Law, Media, News | Tags: Disparate Impact, Disparate Impact Claim, Fair Housing Act, SCOTUS, Supreme Court

The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan has been working for 23 years to open up housing free from discrimination. Our work aims to allow people the ability to live where they choose – not where others deem acceptable. We have settled 82 lawsuits, gained over $1.8 million dollars in settlements for complainants, and successfully negotiated […]

Lansing-Area Case: Discrimination Against Families with Children

May 15, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: Children, civil rights, discrimination, east lansing, Fair Housing Act, familial status, Holt, Ingham County, lansing, Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, Owosso, Shiawassee County, testing

The Fair Housing Center has filed a lawsuit against the owner/operator of several Lansing-area properties. Check out these links for the full press release and statewide news coverage: FHC Press Release Michigan Radio WNEM Channel 5 WFSB Channel 3 (includes video) According to the lawsuit, testers posing as a single parent with a young child were told that […]

Lansing Housing Advocates Training and Welfare Policy Seminar – Registration Open

April 14, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: east lansing, housing advocates training, LSSCM, MPLP, welfare policy seminar

The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan staff, along with the Michigan Poverty Law Program, and Legal Services of South Central Michigan, will be holding Housing Advocates Training (HAT) on June 22 and a Welfare Policy Seminar (WPS) on June 23, 2015, in Lansing. Registration is required.

23rd Anniversary Happy Hour

February 19, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Ann Arbor, celebration, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHC 23rd Anniversary, happy hour

If you find yourself in Ann Arbor next Thursday, please join us for Happy Hour at The Bar at 327 Braun Court! Thursday, February 26th, from 5-7 PM. We’ll be eating cake, appreciating a warm room, and celebrating our 23rd Anniversary. A portion of all drink proceeds will be donated to the FHC and additional donations are welcome.

FHC Awarded Nearly $1,000,000 to Fight Housing Discrimination

October 20, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHIP, funding, grant, HUD, Michigan, Michigan fair housing centers, PEI-MYC, Private Enforcement Initiative, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

On October 15, 2014, the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan received notice of a three-year grant totaling $974,832 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

Racial Dot Map

July 24, 2014 | Categories: Media, News | Tags: census, census data, cooper center, demographics, race

Demographic researchers at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have used the 2010 Census Block Data to produce an interactive map that plots a dot for every person in

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 […]

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.