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.
Campaign by Fair Housing for All and others to broaden protections
against discrimination in publicly-assisted housing yields promised
action; advocates await draft regulations.
17th Annual Conference, to be held on February 11th and 12th, to haveJohn Trasvina as special guest, and to feature presentations onpotential legislative initiatives and on the implications of theWestchester affirmatively furthering fair housing case.
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.