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
Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan (877) 979-FAIR, info@fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Discrimination Lawsuit Filed: Wheelchair User Demands Sidewalk Access Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Interested in housing issues? Work at a community organization? Eager to learn more about landlord/tenant, fair housing, and government housing programs? You are invited
Registration is now open for Housing Advocates Training on September 23 and 24th, 2014, and a Welfare Policy Seminar in the afternoon of the 24th. Both workshops are in Ann Arbor. HAT is designed to help social service workers gain a working knowledge of fair housing law, landlord/tenant law, and housing subsidy programs. WPS focuses on the Department […]
This article was originally published in our Spring 2014 Newsletter. The United States Department of Justice advises that more than 650,000 ex-offenders are released from prison every year1, and social scientists and legal scholars now estimate up to 65,000,000 people are living with a criminal conviction in the U.S.2 A high percentage of those 65 million […]
Click here to read our latest newsletter! Highlights include: photos from of our Fair Housing Breakfast a welcome to new staff an article on the connection between criminal background issues and fair housing updates on recently settled cases If you’d like to receive the print version of this or future newsletters, please send your mailing information to info@fhcmichigan.org.
Listen now to hear an informative discussion about race and housing discrimination. WKAR Current State staff talk with FHC Executive Director Pam Kisch and previous FHC complainant Lauretta Codrington. The piece, titled “Housing discrimination pervasive but subtle,” explores the work of the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan and the compelling personal story of what housing discrimination […]
Please join us for a Fair Housing Breakfast with Guest Speaker John Relman on Tuesday, February 25th. Details at Fair Housing Breakfast or on the Eventbrite webpage.
We lost an important friend to the Fair Housing Center when Clifford Schrupp, the founder and Executive Director of the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit (FHC-Detroit), passed away on September 11, 2013. He was 74. Cliff was a national leader in fair housing enforcement. Under his direction, the FHC-Detroit aided in the filing of […]
Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan (877) 979-FAIR, info@fhcmichigan.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Contact: FHC Executive Dir. Pam Kisch, (734) 994-3426; Attorney Steve Tomkowiak (248) 543-1600 MONROE MICHIGAN MOM SETTLES NEW DISCRIMINATION SUIT FOR $20,000 MONROE, MICHIGAN — Cicily Pippens of Monroe, Michigan has settled her housing discrimination law suit against […]