Last week, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro passed his one-year anniversary at the helm of the organization. Coincidentally – well, maybe not so coincidentally – he’s also been busy lately promoting the White House’s Affirmatively Forwarding Fair Housing rule and even penned an opinion article for Read more…
This week’s recipe of fair housing headlines includes generous portions of disparate impact with a dash of fair housing history, topped off with a bitter seasoning of how heavily poverty affects people’s access to housing. Feast your eyes, famished readers. To help mark its 50th year of service, Fair Housing Read more…
Hi there, and welcome to our inaugural roundup of fair housing headlines. To do out part to provide people with updates on what’s happening in the world of fair housing, we’re going to be collecting a roundup of relevant news to each week here on our website. Check out what’s Read more…
By Rhonda Mays Penn Live After several summers of rioting in the mid 1960s, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in 1968 issued a report highlighted by the statement “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” The Reverend Martin Luther King Read more…
By Beth Musgrave May 7, 2014 Kentucky.com Art Crosby, executive director of the Lexington Fair Housing Council, a nonprofit that fights housing discrimination, said the ordinance creates different rules for different types of people. “There is something wrong with zoning that allows a community center for the rich to move Read more…
The Lexington Fair Housing Council received the 2009 Governor’s Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service in the nonprofit category. Read more about the award here: http://chfs.ky.gov/dfrcvs/kccvs/govawards.htm
