The Problem

40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, and 45 years after the 1963 March on Washington, the promise of the Fair Housing Act (and of the March) remain unfulfilled.

For all the work that has been done – and there have been decades of important and praiseworthy efforts – we have to acknowledge that we remain in substantial part a residentially segregated society, that persons with disabilities too frequently remain excluded from the mainstream, and that acts of discrimination continue to be perpetrated against members of each and all of the groups protected pursuant either to the Fair Housing Act or pursuant to its state and local counterparts.

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Why Fair Housing for All?

This project is designed:

to provide an organized voice to fair housing attorneys on legal and public policy issues;

to open better lines of communication between and among ourselves, our clients, and our allies;

to expand the number of attorneys prepared to work in a serious and ongoing fashion on fair housing matters; and

to develop new strategies for effecting structural change.

Read the press release. We welcome legal workers and law students to join us as well.

Fair Housing for All to Fund a Fair Housing Organization
to Hire a Law Student Intern for 2008-2009
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A different view on legislation

There is a lot to do in Washington. But if we want to get off the defensive and maximize our gains, we must look beyond DC, regardless of what happens in November.

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national, state, and local
tentative legislative priorities

Excerpts from Dr. King's "Where Do We Go From Here" Speech, August 16, 1967

Now, in order to answer the question, "Where do we go from here?" which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now....

Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice....

Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home....

Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity....

Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout, "White Power!" when nobody will shout, "Black Power!" but everybody will talk about God's power and human power....

And I must confess, my friends, that the road ahead will not always be smooth....[T]here will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. But difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future....