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Kentucky COVID-19 Housing Survey

As we approach May 1, this will mark the second time that Kentuckians’ rent or mortgages are going to be due during the during the COVID-19 crisis. In that time, almost 1 in 4 Kentuckians have filed for unemployment due to a loss of income because of the stay-at-home orders, Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 10 months10 months ago
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COVID-19 FAQs

We’ve had a ton of questions from renters and landlords alike about what folks’ expectations and obligations are during the COVID-19 #HealthyAtHome order was made. So we’ve created an FAQ to hopefully answer some of those questions. If you find that your question isn’t answered in this FAQ, though, please Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 11 months10 months ago
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Fair Housing Month 2018 List of Events

Here is the complete list of Lexington Fair Housing Events we’ve got scheduled around the state for this April. We hope to see you there, wherever “there” may be! April 3, 2018 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST), Fair Housing Training at the Rowan County Public Library (175 Beacon Hill Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 3 years ago
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Fair Housing Training in PADUCAH, KY

If you can’t make it to our Fair Housing Month conference in Louisville, KY, next month, we have another training opportunity happening in April. Together with the Paducah Human Rights Commission, we’ll be offering a free fair housing training and luncheon on Tuesday, April 24. **Registration for this training is Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 3 years3 years ago
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Fair Housing Month 2018 News & Announcements!

2018 Fair Housing Conference Thursday, April 26, 2018 Louisville, KY 8:45AM – 5:00PM The Lexington Fair Housing Council is excited for Fair Housing Month 2018 as it marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the original Fair Housing Act in 1968. So much has changed in 50 years, and Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 3 years3 years ago
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Richard Rothstein Visits Lexington This February

In partnership with the Lexington Community Land Trust and Wild Fig Coffee and Books, the Lexington Fair Housing Council will host a free, one-night only public lecture by acclaimed author Richard Rothstein. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at the Carrick Theater on Transylvania University’s campus. Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 3 years3 years ago
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Locked Out: A Lexington Fair Housing Council Report

In recent years, there has been a growing conversation about what communities in the United States can do and are currently doing about the pervasive, persistent problem of evictions and the seemingly permanent impact being evicted has on residents. In no small part, the impetus for this reflection on evictions Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 3 years3 years ago
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Mapping a Segregated City: A Lexington Fair Housing Council Report

Today, the Lexington Fair Housing Council is proud to release a new report, Mapping a Segregated City: The Growth of Racially/Ethnically Concentrated Poverty & Affluence in Lexington, 1970-2014. We feel that the report identifies several long-term trends in the city of Lexington regarding not only where affluence and poverty have Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 4 years4 years ago
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HUD Issues Updates for Persons with LEP; Hostile Environment & Quid Pro Quo Harassment

The Department of Housing and Urban Development released two statements this week about added protections against housing discrimination: a new guidance on fair housing for people with limited English proficiency (LEP) and a rule addressing fair housing issues for victims of harassment and survivors of domestic violence. Speaking about the Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 4 years ago
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Lexington’s Homeless School Children

The Lexington Fair Housing Council has completed a report on the increasing trend of homeless school children in the Fayette County Public School district, which finds that the incidence of homelessness among school children has never doubled from 2013 to 2016. The report includes an analysis of correlations observed among Read more…

By Lexington Fair Housing Council, 5 years5 years ago

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