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…
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…
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…
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…
Summer’s finally here, and with it is a return to our regularly scheduled Fair Housing Five updates. This month goes border to border as we’ve got fair housing news from Eastern Kentucky to the far western edges of the state (okay, admittedly, it’s a small skip outside of the Kentucky Read more…
We didn’t have to look far to find fair housing stories for this week’s post as so much is happening lately right in our backyard. With big announcements last week and big events happening this coming week, you could say that housing issues are finally getting some spotlight in Lexington. Read more…