We want to foster better communication and collaboration between and among ourselves, our civil rights and housing rights colleagues, and the innumerable other potential allies needed for a powerful fair housing movement.
ACHIEVING STRUCTURAL CHANGE
Fair Housing for All believes that structural change is desperately needed, and that we won't achieve that change if we aren't open to new strategies.
GROWING THE FAIR HOUSING BAR
Fair Housing for All is committed to expanding the number of attorneys who have plaintiff's fair housing work as part of their ongoing practices.
PROVIDING AN ORGANIZED VOICE
Fair Housing for All provides fair housing attorneys with an organized voice on legal and public policy issues.
Create "private attorney general standing" for fair housing organizations on the state and local level. As with any civil rights initiative being made at the state or local level, the effort is more plausible in some places than in others. We need your help in identifying those jurisdictions that might be congenial to this idea.
In a survey, 83% of people who believed that they had been the discriminated against in housing did not do anything about it. Don't be one of those silent victims. There are real and effective tools by which you can fight back.
United States obtains $120,000 settlement and injunctive relief in cased based on National Fair Housing Alliance testing; Justice Department press release describes fair housing enforcement as "top priority."
The Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School finds substantial disparities based on race and linked to residential segregation
UCLA's Civil Rights Project reports on increasing school segregation, cites need to fight residential segregation if there is to be hope of reversing pattern.
Inspector General's Office at DOJ, in report focusing on 2003-2006, finds illegal effort to make Civil Rights Division a more conservative environment.
Fair Housing-Fair Lending Returns
The publication of record in the fair housing world is is back in business.