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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


FHC Board President to be Honored Tonight

September 18, 2013 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: Ann L. Routt, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHC Board of Directors, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, State Bar of Michigan

FHC Board President Ann Routt to be honored with a Champion of Justice Award by State Bar of Michigan tonight. Congratulations Ann!


Registration Open for Ann Arbor Housing Advocates Training, October 2013

August 14, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, housing advocates training, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, Michigan Poverty Law Program

The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan staff, along with the Michigan Poverty Law Program, and Legal Services of South Central Michigan, will be holding Housing Advocates Training (HAT) on October 17 and a Welfare Policy Seminar(WPS) on October 18, 2013, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Registration is required. HAT is designed to help social service workers gain […]


Fair Housing Center Settles Ann Arbor Disability Case for $39,500

June 28, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: disability, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, HUD, Renaissance Community Homes, Scio Farms Estates, Sun Community Homes, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan (877) 979-FAIR, info@fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2013, Ann Arbor MI For more information contact: Pamela A. Kisch (877) 979-3247   FAIR HOUSING CENTER SETTLES ANN ARBOR DISABILITY CASE FOR $39,500 “LIVE-IN” LEASING POLICY UNFAIRLY APPLIED, DISCRIMINATES AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES   ANN ARBOR – The Fair Housing Center (FHC) of […]


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 […]


Associate Director Presents at HUD-FHEO Training

June 11, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Civil Rights Agenda, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHEO-HUD, Illinois Dept. of Human Rights, Kristen Cuhran, LGBT, sexual orientation

On Tuesday, May 22nd, Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan Associate Director Kristen Cuhran presented at the “Fair Housing Region V 2013 FHAP Partnership Training” held at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Ms. Cuhran was part of a panel titled “HUD’s LGBT Guidance and State/Local Enforcement of LGBT Anti-Discrimination”. Kristen presented on the testing […]


FHC Launches New Ad Campaign

September 27, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: advertising, fair housing center of southeastern michigan

FHC Launches New Ad Campaign


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.


FHC: Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act Should Be Expanded

May 23, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Fair Housing Act, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, gender expression, gender identity, HUD, LGBT, MDCR, Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, Michigan fair housing centers, Senator Rebekah Warren, sexual orientation

Here’s the testimony we presented at the MDCR public hearing to amend #Elliott-Larsen. #lgbt #fairhousing


Ypsilanti Housing Advocates Training, May 2012

March 29, 2012 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, HAT, housing advocates training, Legal Services, Michigan Poverty Law Program

Are You an Advocate? Check out the FHC Ypsilanti Housing Advocates Training- May 15 2012. Info at http://www.fhcmichigan.org/get-involved/hat/


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