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AnnArbor.com Article Focuses on Fair Housing Testing

February 22, 2011 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: annarbor.com, civil rights, tester, testing, training, U.S. Department of Justice

AnnArbor.com writer James Dickson talks to FHC-SE Director Pamela Kisch in article titled “Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan looking for testers to investigate housing discrimination complaints.” The article, which also includes interviews of Clifford Schrupp from the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit and Judith Levy from the United States Justice Department, focuses on […]

Kraehnke v Shamrock

January 1, 2009 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: familial status, Monroe, pregnancy, U.S. Department of Justice

#W09-96 Kraehnke v Shamrock Monroe Cassandra Kraehnke contacted the FHC to report that her family was denied the rental of a mobile home in Monroe because she had one child and was pregnant with a second. Ms. Kraehnke said the agent told her that the property had a “one child policy” and thus her family […]

FHC v Ivanhoe House Apartments

January 1, 2008 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: Ann Arbor, race, U.S. Department of Justice

#W08-40 FHC v Ivanhoe House Apartments Ann Arbor After several years of testing Ivanhoe Apartments for possible violations of fair housing law, the FHC filed suit against the owner and resident manager of the housing complex. To investigate allegations of race discrimination the FHC sent African-American and white test teams to Ivanhoe Apartments. Testing evidence […]