The continuing legacy of redlining and systemic racism
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 […]
Top 3 Things You Should Know About Fair Housing
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 […]
Disparate Impact: A Key Tool We Must Preserve
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 […]
We Must Understand Our Shared History
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 […]
Hannah Callaghan’s Parting Words
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 […]