by Rene Ferran | Jul 30, 2020 | Latest News
The history of racial discrimination and segregation in housing plays a significant role in the criminal justice and health disparities we see today. People of color have long faced both formal and informal mechanisms of segregation, the effects of which can be seen...
by Rene Ferran | Jul 15, 2020 | Latest News
1. The Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968 as a way to quell the riots that broke out in 125 cities after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. The Fair Housing Act was regularly considered by Congress from 1966-67, but never received enough votes to pass....
by Rene Ferran | Oct 7, 2019 | Latest News
On our bus tours of historical housing discrimination, segregation, and displacement, we introduce our work by telling riders that housing discrimination no longer looks like it did more than 51 years ago when the Fair Housing Act was passed. It is much more subtle...
by Rene Ferran | Jul 3, 2019 | Latest News
As long as people have worked to find places to live throughout history, there also have been systems designed to separate us. In this country, indigenous peoples were forcibly displaced from their native lands as America expanded from sea to shining sea. Many...
by Rene Ferran | Dec 5, 2018 | Latest News
What are your most memorable moments at FHCO? I remember my first HUD monitoring visit in 2013 when Nicole and I worked non-stop trying to organize all four enforcement grants with paper files all organized and tests all done differently by four different test...
