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FHC Fall 2015 Newsletter

October 13, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, newsletter

The FHC 2015 Fall Newsletter is out! View the digital color version online right now. Highlights include news of a recently settled race discrimination case, photos from our 2nd Fair Housing Breakfast, disability success stories, and more. Didn’t get a printed copy and want one? Have questions or comments? We’d love to hear from you at info@fhcmichigan.org.

FHC Launches New Sexual Harassment Awareness Campaign

August 10, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: discrimination, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, fair housing for all, housing discrimination, sex, Sexual Harassment, YAWE

The Fair Housing Center has launched a campaign titled Shine a Light to bring public awareness to the issue of sexual harassment and housing. Sexual harassment – such as unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other unwelcome verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature – is against the law and considered a form of […]

New Fair Housing Rule

July 16, 2015 | Categories: Fair Housing Law, News | Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, fair housing, Fair Housing Act, President Obama, White House

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released a final rule regarding the Fair Housing Act’s provisions to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). The rule includes tools that will make it easier for communities to identify and overcome segregation, concentrated poverty, and other barriers to equal housing opportunity. President Obama spoke about the rule and its importance in his weekly […]

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 […]

Interested in housing issues?

September 16, 2014 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: Ann Arbor, fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, housing advocates training, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, Michigan Poverty Law Program, training

Interested in housing issues? Work at a community organization? Eager to learn more about landlord/tenant, fair housing, and government housing programs? You are invited

Ann Arbor Housing Advocates Training Registration Now Open

July 18, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Ann Arbor, fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHC, housing advocates training, Legal Services, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, LSSCM, Michigan Poverty Law Program, MPLP, welfare policy seminar

Registration is now open for Housing Advocates Training on September 23 and 24th, 2014, and a Welfare Policy Seminar in the afternoon of the 24th. Both workshops are in Ann Arbor. HAT is designed to help social service workers gain a working knowledge of fair housing law, landlord/tenant law, and housing subsidy programs. WPS focuses on the Department […]

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 […]

FHC Staff and Complainant Talk to WKAR

February 13, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Codrington, fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, Pam Kisch, WKAR

Listen now to hear an informative discussion about race and housing discrimination. WKAR Current State staff talk with FHC Executive Director Pam Kisch and previous FHC complainant Lauretta Codrington. The piece, titled “Housing discrimination pervasive but subtle,” explores the work of the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan and the compelling personal story of what housing discrimination […]

$20,000 to Monroe Mom in Housing Settlement

December 7, 2013 | Categories: About FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: fair housing, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, familial status, Monroe, Tomkowiak

Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan (877) 979-FAIR, info@fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Contact: FHC Executive Dir. Pam Kisch, (734) 994-3426; Attorney Steve Tomkowiak (248) 543-1600 MONROE MICHIGAN MOM SETTLES NEW DISCRIMINATION SUIT FOR $20,000 MONROE, MICHIGAN — Cicily Pippens of Monroe, Michigan has settled her housing discrimination law suit against […]

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