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Defend Civil Rights

September 6, 2019 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: civil rights, Defend Civil Rights, Disparate Impact, Disparate Impact Claim, Fair Housing Act, HUD, NFHA

A vital protection against housing segregation and discrimination is under attack. The current administration is attempting to rollback protections against housing discrimination by gutting a part of the Fair Housing Act (FHA). At stake is a protection under the FHA called “disparate impact.” This protection says that lenders, landlords, and other housing professionals should choose policies that […]

Mississippi’s Exiled Daughter, Author Event

August 3, 2018 | Categories: Events | Tags: book, Brenda Travis, civil rights, civil rights movement, John Obee, Mississippi's Exiled Daughter, vote

Author Event | Brenda Travis & John Obee Thursday September 27, 2018: 7:00pm to 8:30pm Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room Join Authors Brenda Travis and John Obee as they discuss their new book, Mississippi’s Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped My Life. Mississippi’s Exiled Daughter is the riveting story of how the […]

FHC Says NO to Ben Carson’s Proposed Changes to HUD Mission Statement

March 22, 2018 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Ben Carson, civil rights, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, National Fair Housing Alliance, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Earlier this month, the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan joined with 572 other civil rights organizations to send a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Ben Carson, in response to media reports that the Secretary was aiming to change HUD’s mission statement. Coordinated by the National Fair Housing Alliance, the […]

New Federal Fair Housing Complaint Filed Against Ann Arbor Property

April 13, 2017 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: Ann Arbor, civil rights, disability, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Ramp, reasonable modification, Steve Tomkowiak

Management delays ramp installation, forces woman to crawl into home. The Fair Housing Center has initiated a fair housing discrimination lawsuit based on disability against Group Five Management Company and TG Properties LLC, the owners of Randolph Court Apartments in Ann Arbor. Read the full press release here. Since age 4, Sarah Tankson has suffered […]

4th Annual Fair Housing Breakfast

January 11, 2017 | Categories: About FHC, Events | Tags: civil rights, event, fair housing, Relman Dane & Colfax, sara pratt

You are invited to attend A Fair Housing Breakfast with Sara Pratt Wednesday, March 22, 2017 from 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Weber’s Inn, Ann Arbor Please join the Fair Housing Center of Southeast and Mid Michigan for our 4th Annual Fair Housing Breakfast. We are pleased to announce that Sara Pratt of Relman, Dane, & Colfax […]

Theodore M. Shaw’s Talk at the FHC Breakfast 2016

June 21, 2016 | Categories: About FHC, Events | Tags: Ann Arbor, civil rights, fair housing, Fair Housing Breakfast, Fair Housing Breakfast 2016, Mckinley, PNC Bank, Theodore M. Shaw, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development

Theodore M. Shaw joined the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan as the keynote speaker at our 2016 Fair Housing Breakfast event. FHC Board President Ann Routt and FHC Director Pam Kisch are also included. Thank you again to our generous sponsors!

Last Chance for FHC Breakfast Tickets

March 8, 2016 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: civil rights, fair housing, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, fundraiser, Legal Defense Fund, NAACP, Theodore M. Shaw

Please join us at Weber’s Inn on Wednesday, March 16th for Professor Shaw’s talk “The Sleeping Giant of Civil Rights: The Fair Housing Act.” Local Connections: While on the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School, Ted Shaw played a key role in the admissions program that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 in […]

A Fair Housing Breakfast with Theodore M. Shaw

December 8, 2015 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: #fhcbreakfast2016, civil rights, fair housing, Fair Housing Breakfast 2016, Theodore M. Shaw

Please join the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan at our 3rd Annual Fair Housing Breakfast. Theodore M. Shaw, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law, will be our speaker. Professor Shaw was President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for […]

FHC Testing Leads to Justice Department Action

November 23, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Children, civil rights, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, familial status, Sudi Hopper, testing, U.S. Department of Justice

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 19, 2015 Justice Department Sues Three Michigan Apartment Complexes for Discriminating Against Families with Children The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the owners and manager of three Michigan apartment complexes – Parkside East Apartments, in East Lansing, Michigan, Holt Manor […]

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 […]