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Lansing Defend Civil Rights Comment Party

September 16, 2019 | Categories: About the FHC, Events | Tags: Defend Civil Rights, DefendCivilRights, Disparate Impact, Disparate Impact Claim, lansing

The current administration is trying to roll-back an extremely important part of the Fair Housing Act, called the “Disparate Impact Rule.” This is an attack on housing and civil rights that could deeply impact communities of color, families with children, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Help protect our neighborhoods from discrimination and #DefendCivilRights! Join […]

FHC Joins National Groups Opposing Changes to the Disparate Impact Rule

September 13, 2019 | Categories: About FHC, About the FHC, News | Tags: Defend Civil Rights, DefendCivilRights, Disparate Impact, Disparate Impact Claim

The Fair Housing Center has joined a diverse coalition of civil rights groups in a campaign to “Defend Civil Rights” aimed at mobilizing thousands of people across the country to oppose the proposed rule and sound the alarm on its widespread, harmful consequences. We believe that if the rule is finalized, it would be virtually […]

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 […]

Comment & Cocktail Hour

August 29, 2019 | Categories: About FHC, Events | Tags: DefendCivilRights, Disparate Impact, Disparate Impact Claim, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ypsilanti

The current administration just launched an attack on housing and civil rights that could deeply impact communities of color, families with children, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Help protect our neighborhoods from discrimination and #DefendCivilRights! Grab a drink and join us Thursday, September 5th, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Tap Room in Ypsilanti, 201 W […]

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 […]

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 […]

An Important Step for Equal Opportunity

February 11, 2013 | Categories: News | Tags: Disparate Impact, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a final rule to standardize implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s discriminatory effects standard (HUD Press Release). Included in this rule is a confirmation that the Fair Housing Act may be violated by a housing practice that has a discriminatory effect even if the […]