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2nd Annual Fair Housing Breakfast A Success

March 4, 2015 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: #fhcbreakfast2015, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor State Bank, Charles Reinhart Company Realtors, civil rights, event, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Fair Housing Breakfast, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Flagstar Bank, fundraiser, Huron Valley Financial, Jason Reece, Kirwan Institute, MB Financial Bank, Mckinley, Michigan Realtors, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, MSHDA, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development, Zingerman’s Community of Businesses

Our guest speaker for this year’s event was Jason Reece from the Kirwan Institute. Mr. Reece’s talk “Place, Housing & Opportunity: Fair Housing for Supporting Thriving Families and Communities” covered housing and health equity, the need for fair housing testing, and high quality housing in high opportunity areas for all. You can view slides from […]

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 […]

One to Watch: Seven Days

March 27, 2014 | Categories: Media | Tags: civil rights, Fair Housing Act, Martin Luther King Jr., NFHA, Seven Days

Seven Days from Animal on Vimeo. “In April of 1968, seven days changed fair housing forever.” This short film explores how MLK’s assassination triggered the passing of the Fair Housing Act. Congratulations to the National Fair Housing Alliance for its work with Nationwide Insurance and Animal production for this stunning eight-minute piece commemorating the 45th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. (Vimeo […]

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.

The FHC is hiring part-time employees

September 12, 2012 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: civil rights, employment, tester, testing

Help uncover illegal housing discrimination: join our team today!

April 11th- An Important Day in our Nation’s History

April 11, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: civil rights, Fair Housing Act, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, fair housing month, HUD, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Today is the anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Is your life different because of this legislation? #fhcmichigan

New FHC Book Groups- Please Join Us!

January 6, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: books, civil rights, fair housing, human rights, readings

Fair Housing Book Groups The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan is pleased to announce 2 new book groups centered around Civil and Human Rights related readings, fiction and non-fiction. Details regarding each group’s location are below (as well as PDF’s for download). The first book that both groups will be reading is The New Jim Crow by […]

National Civil Rights Groups Applaud Department of Education, Department of Justice

December 5, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: ACLU, civil rights, Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP, PRRAC, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Justice

Press Release – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Civil Rights Groups: School Diversity Guidance “Good for Our Young People, for Our Communities and for Our Nation” For Immediate Release Contact: Scott Westbrook Simpson, 202.466.2061, simpson@civilrights.org December 2, 2011 Washington, DC – In response to the joint guidance released today by the United States Department of Education […]

New Protections Proposed for LGBT Individuals

September 26, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: civil rights, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, gender, gender identity, HUD, LGBT, marital status, sexual orientation, source of income, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Advocate.com Kerry, Nadler Propose Fair Housing Bill for LGBTs The Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act, or HOME Act, would amend existing federal law to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing and credit. By Andrew Harmon Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts has introduced federal legislation to expressly prohibit anti-LGBT […]

DOJ: Citizens Republic Settles Race-Discrimination Allegations

May 6, 2011 | Categories: News, Press Release | Tags: civil rights, color, fair housing, race, U.S. Department of Justice

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Thursday, May 5, 2011 Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc. and Citizens Bank Regarding Alleged Lending Discrimination in Detroit Settlement Provides $3.6 Million to Ensure Equal Lending Services to African-American Community