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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 […]

Michigan Adds Source of Income Protections to State Law

April 9, 2025 | Categories: About the FHC, Media, News | Tags: Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, housing choice vouchers, Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, Section 8, source of income

Great news for renters’ fair housing rights: as of April 2, 2025, Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) prohibits discrimination in rental housing based on source of income. According to ELCRA, source of income includes benefits or subsidy programs such as housing assistance, Housing Choice Vouchers, public assistance, veterans’ benefits, child support, alimony, Social Security, Supplemental Security […]

New Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Filed, Lansing

October 17, 2019 | Categories: About the FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: discrimination, lansing, Lansing State Journal, lawsuit, national origin, Sexual Harassment, WILX

New Sexual Harassment Lawsuit FiledFair Housing Suit Also Alleges National Origin Bias Sarah Yoder contacted the Fair Housing Center in August 2018 to file a sexual harassment complaint against Ryan McDonell. Ms. Yoder, a 39-year-old Native American woman, stated that she had gone to view a one-bedroom house listed for $700/month in Lansing and that Mr. McDonell gave […]

Fair Housing Centers of Michigan Call For Statewide Day of Action, October 16th

October 15, 2019 | Categories: About the FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: DefendCivilRights, DefendMICivilRights

Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid MichiganPO Box 7825, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 (877) 979-FAIR www.fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2019 Fair Housing Centers of Michigan Plan Statewide Day of Action to Oppose HUD’s Attempt to Gut Core Civil Rights Protection The Fair Housing Centers of Metropolitan Detroit, Southeast & Mid Michigan, Southwest Michigan, […]

FHC Joins National Groups Opposing Changes to the Disparate Impact Rule

September 13, 2019 | Categories: About FHC, About the FHC, News | Tags: Defend Civil Rights, DefendCivilRights, Disparate Impact, Disparate Impact Claim

The Fair Housing Center has joined a diverse coalition of civil rights groups in a campaign to “Defend Civil Rights” aimed at mobilizing thousands of people across the country to oppose the proposed rule and sound the alarm on its widespread, harmful consequences. We believe that if the rule is finalized, it would be virtually […]

National Fair Housing Testing Expert Speaks in Ann Arbor

March 8, 2019 | Categories: About FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: Ann Arbor State Bank, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Fred Freiberg, housing, Mckinley, PNC Bank, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development

The Fair Housing Center (FHC) will host its 6th Annual Fair Housing Breakfast on March 21st at Weber’s Inn. Fred Freiberg, Executive Director of the Fair Housing Justice Center in New York, is the guest speaker for the charity event. Mr. Freiberg is one the nation’s leading experts on the use of undercover testing as an investigative tool to enforce civil rights laws. His talk is titled: “Fair Housing: With All Deliberate Lethargy.”

WEMU 89.1 Airs Story on Fair Housing

December 18, 2018 | Categories: About FHC, Media, News | Tags: Ann Arbor, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Jorge Avellan, Pam Kisch, Sarah Tankson, Washtenaw County, WEMU

Listen now. Reporter Jorge Avellan talks with FHC complainant Sarah Tankson about her disability rights case and Director Pam Kisch weighs in on the current state of fair housing in Washtenaw County.

New Fair Housing Lawsuit Filed Against MSU Sorority

December 7, 2018 | Categories: About FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: Alpha Omicron Pi, assistance animal, disability, Disability Rights, Emotional Support Animal, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Federal Court, Kerry Morgan, Michigan State University

Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan PO Box 7825, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 (877) 979-FAIR www.fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3rd, 2018 Media Contacts: Pam Kisch, (877) 979-3247; Attorney Kerry L. Morgan, (734) 281-7100 A copy of the filed complaint is available upon request. New Fair Housing Lawsuit Filed Against MSU Sorority Kayla […]

Attorney and Criminal Background Trainings Funded by United Way

November 9, 2018 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: attorney, Cooperating Attorney, criminal background, grant, housing, training, United Way, United Way of Monroe/Lenawee Counties, United Way of Washtenaw County

The Fair Housing Center has received two new grants from the United Way. The first grant is from the United Way of Lenawee/Monroe Counties in support of our Fair Policy, Fair Chance program. With these funds we will conduct community-based education sessions on the topic of criminal background and housing rights in Lenawee County. The second, from the United Way of Washtenaw […]