***** News & Reports *****
Click here for the FHCWM's 2009 Annual Report.
National
Fair Housing Alliance Report
FOR RENT: NO KIDS!
How Internet Housing Advertisements
Perpetuate Discrimination
Click here
for the FHCWM Addendum.
Missed
even one house payment? Don't wait:
Foreclosure
Response connects residents with community resources and advocates
for change to stop foreclosures in Kent County.
National
Commission on Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity Release a Report on:
THE FUTURE OF FAIR
HOUSING
Click the title for the full report or below for:
Executive
Summary
What is the Fair Housing Center?
The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan (FHCWM) is a private, non-profit organization established in 1980 to ensure equal housing opportunity as guaranteed under federal, state, and local fair housing laws. That purpose is accomplished through the Center's continuing operation of programs directed at enforcement and education, based on Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act (amended 1988), commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination based upon race, color, religion, gender, familial status, national origin, and/or disability status; the Elliot Larsen Civil Rights Act further prohibits discrimination based upon marital status and age, and local ordinances prohibiting discrimination based upon sexual orientation and source of income. Click here for examples of housing discrimination.
Throughout Michigan, the FHCWM works cooperatively with governmental and community-based agencies to further fair housing goals. The FHCWM investigates claims of illegal housing discrimination, assists claimants in litigation and/or administrative enforcement action, conducts testing to determine compliance with federal and state laws and provides practical education to rental, sales and lending professionals, any organization or professional with a role in the housing industry and home-seekers.
What is Fair Housing?
Fair Housing is the right of individuals to obtain the housing of their choice (rent an apartment, buy a home, obtain a mortgage, buy homeowners insurance, etc.), free from discrimination based on the protected classes listed above.
***** Training & Events *****
Save
the Dates!
September 29, 2010 - 4th Annual Breakfast in Holland
Please join us as our guest - RSVP required:
Registration
Form
November 17, 2010 - 4th Annual Members & Friends Lunch Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary
2010 Fair Housing Training Schedule
Fair
Housing Book Clubs
September
21, at FHCWM Grand Rapids:
Not a Genuine
Black Man by Brian Copeland
September 23, 2010 at Disability Network/Lakeshore
in Holland: Lizzie
Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
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