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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 […]

Apartment Complex Sued for “No Felony” Policy

April 24, 2020 | Categories: About the FHC | Tags: criminal background, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Felony, HUD, hud rule, lawsuit, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid MichiganPO Box 7825, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 (877) 979-FAIR www.fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 31, 2020 Media Contacts: Attorney William F. Piper 269-321-5008A copy of the complaint can be found here. Apartment Complex Sued for “No Felony” Policy On February 26, 2020, The Fair Housing Center of Southeast & […]

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 […]

FHC HUD Complaint Resolved for $45,000 + Policy Changes

September 20, 2019 | Categories: About the FHC, Press Release | Tags: fair housing, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, familial status, families with kids, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan (FHC) announces the resolution of a complaint based on familial status discrimination, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, filed against Management Resources Development, Inc. (MRD). MRD is a property management and construction company with its headquarters in East Lansing, Michigan. MRD owns and/or manages over […]

Comment & Cocktail Hour

August 29, 2019 | Categories: About FHC, Events | Tags: DefendCivilRights, Disparate Impact, Disparate Impact Claim, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ypsilanti

The current administration just launched an attack on housing and civil rights that could deeply impact communities of color, families with children, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Help protect our neighborhoods from discrimination and #DefendCivilRights! Grab a drink and join us Thursday, September 5th, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Tap Room in Ypsilanti, 201 W […]

FHC Says NO to Ben Carson’s Proposed Changes to HUD Mission Statement

March 22, 2018 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: Ben Carson, civil rights, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, National Fair Housing Alliance, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Earlier this month, the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan joined with 572 other civil rights organizations to send a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Ben Carson, in response to media reports that the Secretary was aiming to change HUD’s mission statement. Coordinated by the National Fair Housing Alliance, the […]

New Criminal Background & Housing Fact Sheet

August 30, 2017 | Categories: About FHC, Publications | Tags: arrest record, criminal background, Criminal Background Rule, fact sheet, landlord, second chance, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Fair Housing Center is pleased to announce the release of our seventh Fair Housing Fact Sheet. The new fact sheet is titled “Fair Housing, Criminal Background & Arrest Record.” You can find all of our fact sheets here.

Criminal Background and Housing Info Session

August 3, 2017 | Categories: Events | Tags: criminal background, fair housing, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, housing, HUD, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Heard This? “We have a blanket ‘no felony’ policy” “If you served time in the last 20 years, we won’t take you” “We don’t even look an application if you have a criminal record” “Arrested? You can’t live here” If any of these comments affect your life (or the lives of your family and friends) […]

United Way Awards $7,700 Grant to Fair Housing Center

July 26, 2017 | Categories: About FHC, Press Release | Tags: arrest record, criminal background, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Felony, guidance, landlord, United Way of Washtenaw County, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan PO Box 7825, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 (877) 979-FAIR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2017 For more information, contact: Kristen Cuhran, (877) 979-3247 UNITED WAY AWARDS $7,700 GRANT TO FAIR HOUSING CENTER The United Way of Washtenaw County has awarded the Fair Housing Center of Southeast & […]