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MSU Tiny Rabbit Case Resolved

November 26, 2019 | Categories: Litigation, Press Release | Tags: Alpha Omicron Pi, disability, Disability Rights, east lansing, Emotional Support Animal, Fair Housing Center of Southeast & Mid Michigan, Michigan State University

Civil Rights Demands Change at MSU Sorority According to the complaint taken by the FHC in the fall of 2017, although Kayla Hicks’ need for an emotional support animal was well documented, East Lansing sorority Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) refused to allow her to live with her emotional support animal, a two-pound Netherland Dwarf Rabbit […]

Essay by 15-year-old Spurs Change in East Lansing

March 8, 2018 | Categories: News | Tags: Alex Hosey, east lansing, housing discrimination, Lansing State Journal, racism

We were so impressed by the words of this young man in East Lansing, we just had to share. Fifteen-year-old Alex Hosey wrote an essay about housing discrimination and ideas on how to draw attention to the issue. The essay, which has now spurred city officials to take a hard look at how to make real and lasting change, touches on the […]

Lansing-Area Case: Discrimination Against Families with Children

May 15, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News, Press Release | Tags: Children, civil rights, discrimination, east lansing, Fair Housing Act, familial status, Holt, Ingham County, lansing, Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, Owosso, Shiawassee County, testing

The Fair Housing Center has filed a lawsuit against the owner/operator of several Lansing-area properties. Check out these links for the full press release and statewide news coverage: FHC Press Release Michigan Radio WNEM Channel 5 WFSB Channel 3 (includes video) According to the lawsuit, testers posing as a single parent with a young child were told that […]

Lansing Housing Advocates Training and Welfare Policy Seminar – Registration Open

April 14, 2015 | Categories: About FHC, News | Tags: east lansing, housing advocates training, LSSCM, MPLP, welfare policy seminar

The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan staff, along with the Michigan Poverty Law Program, and Legal Services of South Central Michigan, will be holding Housing Advocates Training (HAT) on June 22 and a Welfare Policy Seminar (WPS) on June 23, 2015, in Lansing. Registration is required.

MSU Professor Drawn to Fair Housing

May 24, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: east lansing, fair housing, Housing Law Clinic, Ingham, Michigan State University

Article about Brian Gilmore- previous Housing Advocates Trainer, FHC-SE

Housing Advocates Training in East Lansing

February 4, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: east lansing, housing advocates training

Housing Advocates Training (designed to help social service workers gain a working knowledge of fair housing law, landlord/tenant law, and housing subsidy program) is set for Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday March 30 in East Lansing. For more information please visit: http://www.fhcmichigan.org/get-involved/housing-advocates-training/.