Although March is named after the Roman god of war and steward of agriculture, we’d like to think of the month as anything but war-like. Unfortunately, historians disagree about which Roman god was the god of fair housing (although Minerva Read more…
April is just around the corner, and we all know what that means: Fair Housing Month! LFHC staff have been busy laying the plans for several events across Kentucky, including our annual Get on the Bus tour. We’ll be hosting Read more…
With the start of the new year, a slight tweak was made to the frequency of the Fair Housing 5 posts. Instead of producing a new post every Friday, the FH5 will now be published only ever first Friday of Read more…
It’s a new year, but unfortunately most of the same housing problems will follow us from 2015. In our first post of 2016, we highlight some innovative ways some are trying to address the shortage of affordable housing in Lexington, Read more…
In our penultimate FH5 post for 2015, the main focus for this week will be one of the most common types of housing discrimination we encounter: disability discrimination. Whether it’s new buildings that are constructed without appropriate accessibility or confusion Read more…
The Metropolitan Housing Coalition in Louisville released their annual State of Metropolitan Housing Report this week. The report discusses several issues facing Louisville’s housing market, including the continuing decline of the median income of Louisville residents, the increase in Black Read more…
The resettlement of Syrian refugees has been at the top of the headlines in recent weeks, and so this week’s FH5 will focus on how the Fair Housing Act protects people from being discriminated against on the basis of their Read more…
Our staff here at Lexington Fair Housing Council regularly speaks to prospective first-time home-buyers who may be vulnerable to discriminatory lending practices. Those forms of discrimination can manifest as, to just name a couple of examples, imposing different terms or Read more…
Given what we know about the prison population’s demographics, it seems inevitable that the practice of denying housing to someone who has been charged or convicted with a crime will collide with the Fair Housing Act’s definition of disparate impact. Read more…
Earlier this year, fair housing advocates and activists breathed a collective sigh of relief when the U.S. Supreme Court preserved the disparate impact component of the Fair Housing Act, which is a key tool for discrimination investigations and charges. While Read more…