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Michigan Fair Housing Centers Address Budget Concerns, Letter to the Editor

June 30, 2025 | Categories: About the FHC, Media, News | Tags: Action Alert, Budget, Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan, Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, Fair Housing Initiatives Program, FHIP, HUD, President Trump, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

To The Editor: “Disabled Vet Homeless without Wheelchair Ramp” “Landlord Gets Away with Sexually Harassing Tenants” “Landlord Rents Only to White Families” “Elderly Mother Injured after Apartment Rejects Son’s Request for Grab Bars” Because of the Michigan Fair Housing Centers, these are the headlines you did not see. We get ramps built, put sexual harassers […]

FHC Complaint Resolutions Open Up Thousands of Housing Opportunities for Families with Children

December 19, 2019 | Categories: Press Release | Tags: fair housing, Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan, Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, familial status, families with kids, Management Resources Development, Monarch Investment, MRD, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

We are very pleased to announce the resolution of two complaints based on familial status discrimination, in violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act. These resolutions ensure a future with many more housing opportunities with families with children. Both complaints were filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and alleged that the […]

Remembering Clifford Schrupp

January 17, 2014 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: Cliff Schrupp, Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion

We lost an important friend to the Fair Housing Center when Clifford Schrupp, the founder and Executive Director of the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit (FHC-Detroit), passed away on September 11, 2013. He was 74. Cliff was a national leader in fair housing enforcement. Under his direction, the FHC-Detroit aided in the filing of […]

FHC Director to Receive Service Award

September 17, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, Pam Kisch, tester, testing

We are pleased to announce that FHC Director Pamela Kisch will be honored at the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit‘s 15th annual Fair Housing Leadership Awards Reception. This event honors “persons or firms in the housing industry who have taken significant actions in support of fair and equal housing opportunities.” Pam will be presented with the Marvin Thomas […]

HUD Housing Programs Require A New -More Inclusive- Definition of Family

February 6, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, Press Release | Tags: Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan, Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, family, gender identity, household, HUD, LGBT, sexual orientation

A new rule (discussed here a little over a year ago) regarding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) core housing programs [rental assistance and home ownership programs, which include HUD’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance programs, community development programs, and public and assisted housing programs] is set to be published this week. The rule, which will go […]

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Forming in Metro Detroit

September 22, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, housing, race

Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion to Establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission