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Fair Housing Rights for Renters

July 25, 2024 | Categories: Fair Housing Law, Publications, Rental | Tags: Fair Housing Act, Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, Michigan’s Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act, renter

As a renter, the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) provides you protection, equal opportunity, and the right to discrimination-free housing on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, familial status, sex, and disability. In Michigan, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) gives you additional housing protections for age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity […]

New Criminal Background & Housing Fact Sheet

August 30, 2017 | Categories: About FHC, Publications | Tags: arrest record, criminal background, Criminal Background Rule, fact sheet, landlord, second chance, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Fair Housing Center is pleased to announce the release of our seventh Fair Housing Fact Sheet. The new fact sheet is titled “Fair Housing, Criminal Background & Arrest Record.” You can find all of our fact sheets here.

FHC Contributes to HUD’s First LGBTQ Housing Discrimination Study

June 7, 2017 | Categories: About the FHC, Gender Identity, LGBTQ, News, Publications, Sexual Orientation | Tags: Fair Housing Act, gender identity, HUD, LGBT, lgbtq, sexual orientation, Transgender, Urban Institute

The groundbreaking work of the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan was acknowledged in a new study titled “Paired-Testing Pilot Study of Housing Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples and Transgender Individuals.” The HUD-funded Urban Institute study tested for discrimination against same-sex and transgender individuals and advanced recommendations for future research and fair housing practitioners. […]

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 […]

New FHC Project Highlights Local Stories on Housing Discrimination

November 8, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, News, Publications | Tags: Codrington, fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, stories, video, visual storytelling

The Fair Housing Center has a visual storytelling project in the works! Read about the project now on “Our Stories” webpage. The Codrington family, after settling their 1992 housing discrimination case

HUD Study Confirms Equality Still Needed

June 21, 2013 | Categories: News, Press Release, Publications | Tags: Fair Housing Act, gender identity, HUD, LGBT, lgbt equality, sexual orientation, Transgender, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Discriminatory Treatment Found Towards LGBT Community in Housing Market

Fact Sheet on HUD’s Equal Access Rule

June 12, 2013 | Categories: News, Publications | Tags: Equal Access Rule, equality, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, gender identity, HUD, LGBT, lgbt equality, marital status, sexual orientation, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

In March, 2012, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released new regulations to ensure equality for LGBT people in housing. HUD published a rule (discussed here previously) that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status in HUD housing and programs (any housing providers that receive HUD funding, have loans insured by […]

20 Years of Working for Justice: Latest FHC Newsletter

August 2, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, Publications | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, newsletter

20 Years of Working for Justice. Read about it now in the latest FHC Newsletter.

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 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 […]