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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 […]

Action Alert: Reject Trump’s FY2026 Budget

May 6, 2025 | Categories: About the FHC, News | Tags: Action Alert, Budget, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Fair Housing Initiatives Program, FHIP, HUD, President Trump, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

As a grantee of HUD’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program, the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan’s ability to continue enforcing the Federal Fair Housing Act is in jeopardy. President Trump’s proposed FY2026 budget cuts ALL funding to nonprofit fair housing enforcement organizations like ours. Without this funding, tens of thousands of people will […]

FHC Awarded Nearly $1,000,000 to Fight Housing Discrimination

October 20, 2014 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHIP, funding, grant, HUD, Michigan, Michigan fair housing centers, PEI-MYC, Private Enforcement Initiative, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

On October 15, 2014, the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan received notice of a three-year grant totaling $974,832 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

HUD Says Fair Housing Program Effective

July 12, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: FHIP, HUD, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Study of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, released June 6, 2011 Foreward (from the study) This evaluation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP) is the first major study of the program in 15 years. The study confirms that FHIP funding is a critical component of the U.S. civil […]