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…
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…
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…
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, as well as what has been happening fair-housing wise across 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 conditions because of your race or by inquiring about any Read more…
Here at LFHC, we’re often dealing with the immediate impacts of housing discrimination: threat of homelessness, intimidation and harassment, recovery of lost capital, etc. While we help people overcome these first-hand effects of housing discrimination, one of the long game of goals of our fair housing world is to create Read more…
This weekend marks 10 years since Hurricane Katrina landed ashore in New Orleans, overwhelming the levees and causing unfathomable destruction due to the floods that followed. 1,800 people died and over a million people were displaced, many of whom would never return to the city. The population of New Orleans Read more…
Sunday, August 9th, marked one year since Mike Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, prompting nationwide protest of police brutality against Black men, women, and children. As the week proceeding that one-year mark has seen renewed protest against institutional as well as overt Read more…