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FY
2008 Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) Awards
Awards Data By State Alabama
Birmingham Fair
Housing Center of Northern Alabama The Fair Housing Center of Northern Alabama (FHCNA) is located in Birmingham, Alabama a city historically equated with discrimination. The project will perform activities in areas of testing for accessibility, rental, and mortgage lending discrimination. In addition, fair housing education, outreach and investigative services will be provided. The target areas to be served are approximately 23 of Alabama's 67 counties. Emphasis will be given to the following counties: Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Shelby, Madison, Lauderdale, Etowah and Calhoun counties. The center has a proximity to the farthest cities of 150 miles. Persons to be served are all the protected classes with attention to persons with disabilities and the Hispanic community. These efforts will include cooperative efforts with community organizations and Birmingham Homeownership Center. Mobile
Mobile Fair Housing Center
The Center for Fair Housing [CFH} will conduct a 12-month enforcement
project in the counties of Mobile, Baldwin, Washington, Clarke,
Choctaw, Conecuh, Escambia and Monroe, which are currently underserved.
Proposed activities include: recruit 5 additional testers; train
testers and CFH staff in fair housing enforcement; conduct tests;
perform complaint intake, processing, referral and counseling; conduct
6 accessibility workshops for both English and LEP individuals;
and meet with a minimum of 50 local groups to provide education
and outreach as well as Energy Star information in English and translated
formats. Montgomery
The Central Alabama Fair Housing Center (CAFHC) will conduct rental, sales, lending and accessibility testing, monitor the enforcement of local occupancy codes, investigate group home zoning issues, and provide fair housing education and outreach to all protected classes, with an emphasis on African-Americans, Latinos, and people with disabilities. CAFHC will also conduct enforcement related media campaigns. These activities will be conducted in metro
ArizonaPhoenix
Tucson Southwest
Fair Housing Council The
Southwest Fair Housing Council (SWFHC) will conduct the following
activities throughout the State of Arizona: interview potential
victims of discrimination; analyze housing related issues; conduct
complaint intake and testing; evaluate test results; conduct preliminary
investigations; conduct mediation; enforce meritorious claims through
litigation or referral to administrative enforcement agencies; and
disseminate information regarding fair housing rights and responsibilities.
SWFHC will conduct the activities identified above at sites provided
by and in collaboration and partnership with
ConnecticutHartford Connecticut
Fair Housing Center Private The
Connecticut Fair Housing Center (CFHC) proposes to continue investigating
complaints of discrimination against all protected classes, complete
a testing project on racial and ethnic steering, conduct three (3)
systemic investigations, promote compliance with design and construction
requirements, conduct education and outreach sessions to 6
California
Southern
California Housing Rights Center HRC will conduct an 18-month project within the Los Angeles County where complaint statistics indicate persistent housing discrimination based on race. The organization will identify specific areas with potential discriminatory practices, conduct rental and sales testing, present workshops that educate landlords and consumers on their fair housing rights and responsibilities, provide fair housing training to property owners, managers, lenders, and consumers throughout LA County, and uncover discriminatory practices through proactive investigations. Napa Greater
Napa Fair Housing Center (NAPA) Greater Napa Fair Housing Center, a non-profit fair housing assistance organization of California will conduct a 12-month project to address segregated housing patterns, expand testing enforcement services and to intensify existing fair housing outreach and education in the Napa County area. Project activities are established to target LEP Hispanics, non-English speaking new immigrant and disabled persons. The applicant will work in collaboration with 8 Napa County faith-based, grassroots and community organizations. Oakland Bay
Area Legal Aide Private Bay Area Legal Aide (BayLegal) is committed to affirmatively furthering fair housing through aggressive fair housing enforcement. BayLegal proposes to provide aggressive fair housing enforcement, during the three year funding cycles. BayLegal will achieve its project goals by developing an outreach plan and engaging in fair housing training, community outreach and education, recruiting and training multiracial/multilingual testers and conduct paired tests. Baylegal will also conduct intake for complaints of housing discrimination and refer enforcement proposals to HUD, investigate and conciliate complaints, and file affirmative complaints with Federal or State courts, and with the Department of Justice. 4 Palo Alto Project
Sentinel Private Project Sentinel (PS) is a full service agency that provides counseling, systemic and complaint investigations. PS will work with 28 other community organizations to serve almost 4 million residents of four diverse northern California counties. The 3-year project will use systemic investigation techniques, conduct education and outreach activities for housing professionals, social service providers, all protected classes and immigrant groups. Sentinel will also build on a pilot project already begun in Santa Clara County to provide redress for consumers targeted for predatory lending practices. San Francisco California
Rural Legal Assistance Private California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) is a private non-profit corporation that provides legal services to farm workers, minority and low-income communities in rural California. The rural fair housing project will enable CRLA's Rural Fair Housing Center [RFHC] to target underserved regions and populations throughout rural areas. CRLA will accomplish the following: (1) initiate mandatory referrals and increase enforcement proposals and actions throughout rural areas, targeting underserved populations; (2) continue hate crimes outreach and enforcement in response to 9/11; and (3) target underserved rural agricultural communities, migrant and seasonal farm workers, recent immigrants and indigenous groups, individuals with LEP, ethnic minorities, linguistically and culturally isolated populations, and the disabled and homeless. RFHC also plan to coordinate with CA Department of Fair Employment Housing (DFEH), HUD, existing fair housing agencies and local government agencies in their testing, complaint reporting, complaint referral and enforcement action efforts. San Rafael Fair
Housing of Marin Private The
Fair Housing of Marin (FHOM) operates in Marin, Contra Costs, Solano
and Sonoma Counties. Some of the services to be provided to protected
classes through this funding, are as follows: workshops and conferences
for the disabled, predatory lending presentations focused on the
elderly, testing on behalf of the immigrant population through e-mail,
complaint solicitation through bi-lingual papers, translation of
web site 5 Santa Ana Orange
County Fair Housing Council Private The Council's project is an expansion of their existing broad-based, full service, complaint-driven private enforcement program. This 12 month project, serving Orange County, will expand its enforcement activities to focus on Fair Housing Act violations against minority, immigrant [including LEP] and disabled housing seekers. Particular emphasis will be on steering or discouragement by realtors, leasing agents and possibly homebuilders that result in denial of housing opportunities to the public. Other activities will include conducting a variety of fair housing tests, and their evaluation and mediation, where appropriate. Broad-based program activities will include fair housing education and counseling. Upland Inland
Fair Housing and Mediation Board Private The
Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board (IFHMB) will utilize this
grant to support fair housing enforcement in the City of Barstow
and the surrounding towns and rural areas. This grant will be used
to strengthen fair housing enforcement through collaboration with
the Fair Housing Council of San Diego who does not have funding
to conduct testing. IFHMB will conduct 100 tests per year in the
San Diego region and the Barstow region.
Colorado
District of ColumbiaWashington, D.C.
National Community Reinvestment Coalition National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) will conduct enforcement activities in the Washington, metropolitan area to combat the present pressing crisis affecting the home mortgage financing industry. The organization will assist HUD to address the continuing mortgage foreclosure crisis, which mostly impacts African-American and Latino homeowners and home-seekers that have often been targeted by the industry with products that strip their equity and wealth. NCRC proposes to investigate and test a wide range of mortgage lenders for compliance with the fair lending laws. Based on the investigations, NCRS will file enforcement recommendations to HUD. Housing
Counseling Services Education and This grant will assist Housing Counseling Service (HCS) organizations to conduct fair housing outreach and education to all protected classes. The project will target low- and moderate-income households and underserved populations (including the LEP community) housing industry officials and community service providers. Project activities will include: specialized workshops for sales and rental housing; 8 fair housing 7 workshops offered in languages other than English, such as Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Amharic, French and Arabic; and training to the community, housing professionals and faith-based partners. The HCS organizations will also conduct 20 workshops in locations throughout the DC area that will specifically target low- and moderate-income and underserved consumers. HCS will conduct pre- and post workshop testing of the level of fair housing knowledge and implement monitoring and follow-up surveys at the end of the project period. Equal
Rights Center Education and Outreach Equal Rights Center (ERC) will conduct the following outreach and education projects in the Washington, DC area: distribution of brochures to 200 organizations; conduct 15 ???Know Your Rightsworkshops; conduct multilingual PSA campaigns to include a focus on national origin discrimination; conduct 12 community meetings to promote fair housing and energy efficiency; and create, print and distribution of a fact sheet for housing developers on federal accessibility guidelines and requirements. Howard
University Education and Outreach The
Howard Law Fair Housing Clinic will train and educate law students
and lawyers about fair housing rights and obligations. The clinical
program will be replicated at two other HBCU Law Schools. The model
clinical program is divided into eight major components: 1) clinical
program of instruction and enhanced curriculum; 2) citizen education
and outreach to legally protected classes; 3) attorney and alumni
training; 4) promotion of similar or equivalent programs and their
ideals at other accredited law schools, especially HBCU law schools;
5) conducting education and outreach on discriminatory subprime
lending, zoning and foreclosure; 6) development and implementation
of Fair Housing Month activities; and 7) the referral of and work
on fair housing complaints.
DelawareWilmington
Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI) will seek to reduce the instances of housing discrimination against members of the protected classes in the State of Delaware through increased enforcement efforts. The project will focus on the fair housing needs of non-English speaking immigrants, people with disabilities, female victims of domestic violence and economically disadvantaged minorities and families. CLASI will conduct fair housing tests under this project. In collaboration with the Center for Community Research and Service of the University of Delaware, the project will also collect and analyze testing data and information concerning possible homeownershazard insurance redlining in the State of Delaware. As outreach for the project CLASI will conduct a minimum of 25 fair housing presentations in the Delaware area.
FloridaDaytona Beach Mid-Florida
Housing Partnership, Inc. Education and Outreach Mid-Florida Housing Partnership, Inc. (MFHP) will conduct fair housing outreach and education projects in Volusia, Flagler and Seminole Counties. Outreach and education activities will include fair housing education to the general public on the rights afforded to them by the Fair Housing Act. MFHP will also include outreach and education presentations which will increase minority homeownership by explaining the home buying process and educating the potential homebuyers of local down payment assistance programs that are available. Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. Private Enforcement Initiative General Component Award Amount - $275,000 Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. (CLSMF) enforcement project will target eight Central Florida counties not currently served by a Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP) organization. These are high-growth, historically segregated counties with rural dissimilarity indices ranging from medium to high. Seeking to impact 2,500 individuals and their families, this projects objectives include: testing for unlawful discrimination and enforcement of the Fair Housing Act; discrimination remedies and complaint referral to HUD; education and outreach to raise awareness among protected classes, lenders, realtors, landlords, property sellers, and members of the general public of the requirements of the Fair Housing Act; closely partnering with eight (8) county and local municipalities receiving CDBG funds to identify and address their impediments to fair housing; and, achieving positive progress in Central Florida. Jacksonville
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. The Florida counties of Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Nassau, and St. Johns will benefit from the services to be provided by JALA. This 3 year project will include a variety of fair housing enforcement activities that will include: complaint intake/processing/ investigations; testing activities; mediation of legitimate complaints; and litigation. Miami Gardens
Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence, Inc. Housing
Opportunities Project for Excellence, Inc.s (HOPE) 12-month FHIP
project will be conducted in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, FL.
This full-service project will provide culturally competent and
accessible fair housing services to all protected classes, including
the homeless. Project activities include, but are not limited to
interviewing potential victims of discrimination; complaint intake
(150); tester training (35); testing test evaluations (130); preliminary
investigations; facilitating mediation, where appropriate; enforcing
meritorious claims of discrimination through litigation or referrals
to HUD; and conducting aggressive education and outreach program
designed to reach 9 Rockledge Fair
Housing Continuum, Inc. Private The Fair Housing Continuum, Inc. (Continuum) will continue its present grant activities, expand services to the underserved and homeless population and continue services to immigrant and persons with disabilities. The Continuum will add Orange and Osceola Counties back to its operating area. All legitimate and fully jurisdictional complaints will be forwarded to HUD. Testing will be conducted of multi-family developments and for new construction accessibility. Continuum will also conduct education and outreach activities in the Central Florida area. The Continuum will collaborate with the Orlando Office of Human Relations (FHAP) and will continue to receive services and assistance from other city and community agencies in mid-Florida. Tampa Bay
Area Legal Services, Inc. The Bay Area Legal Services, Inc. (BALS) will operate in Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa in West Central Florida. BALS will work in partnership with the West Central Florida Agency on Aging, Beth-El Farm worker Ministry, the Homeless Coalition, St. Johns Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, and the Florida Bar Association to increase enforcement and compliance with the fair housing laws. BALS is anticipating intake of 40 fair housing cases per year, recruit and train 15 new testers and conduct a minimum of 84 tests per year. They will also distribute fair housing materials to at least 35 groups annually. This project will focus on persons with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, LEP persons and immigrants. West Palm Beach Legal
Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc. The
Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc.s project will address
local discriminatory housing practices by increasing compliance
with the Federal Fair Housing Act and with substantially equivalent
State and local fair housing laws through the following four enforcement
activities: (1) intake, testing, and evaluation of housing discrimination
complaints; (2) investigation of fair housing discrimination allegations
for further enforcement processing by HUD; (3) mediation or other
voluntary resolution of fair housing discrimination allegations;
and (4) litigation of fair housing cases. The project will concentrate
on resolving fair housing complaints through mediation or other
voluntary resolution processes.
GeorgiaEast Point Metro
Fair Housing Services Metro Fair Housing Services, Inc., will expand its enforcement activities in Butts, Clayton, Hall and Henry Counties while continuing to serve Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb Counties. The applicant will open a satellite office in Jackson [Butts County], to expand fair housing services to these rural and underserved areas. Some continued activities include: regional systemic testing; distribute brochures and flyers in English and Spanish; and partner with faith-based organizations to provide educational seminars for their organizations' constituencies. HawaiiHonolulu Legal
Aid Society of Hawaii Legal
Aid Society of Hawaii (LASH) will provide a full service, statewide
fair housing enforcement program in Hawaii. LASH recognizes the
need of greater enforcement activity to encourage compliance with
fair housing laws. Thus, this project seeks to increase the number
of enforcement actions referred to HUD and substantially equivalent
agencies. LASH will provide assistance to victims of housing discrimination
through intake, complaint analysis, referrals, mediation, negotiating
settlements, implementing conciliation agreements; and conducting
litigation if necessary. LASH will also conduct systemic investigations
and complaint-based testing. The organization will also investigate
individual complaints and promote awareness of fair housing laws
through education and outreach to community organizations, housing
providers, social service providers, and other interested persons.
IowaIowa Civil Rights Commission Education and OutreachInitiative General Component Award Amount - $67,126 The
Iowa Civil Rights Commission (ICRC) is an antidiscrimination enforcement
agency, well-known for its ability to successfully administer fair
housing educational outreach programs. ICRC will work in collaboration
with other grassroots and faith-based organizations throughout Iowa.
ICRC will provide materials and training regarding fair housing
rights and responsibilities under state and federal laws at cultural
festivals, fairs, 14 IdahoBoiseIntermountain
Fair Housing Council The Intermountain Fair Housing Council is the only full-time fair housing enforcement organization in the state of Idaho. The Council will conduct an 18-month state-wide project to increase housing opportunities and affirmatively further fair housing in 5 entitlement communities, 6 metropolitan centers and 38 rural counties. The project proposes to conduct full service fair housing enforcement activities focused on low-income rural persons, recent immigrants (LEP) persons, disabled persons, and families with children. The activities will include the following: conduct rental, sales, lending and insurance paired and audit testing; conduct site design assessments; process jurisdictional complaints; and, extend extensive fair housing outreach and education to the public and key community stakeholders, including the use of cable TV and Spanish language radio.
IllinoisChicagoAccess
Living of Metropolitan Chicago The
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago (ALMC) project will focus
on disability-based discrimination in accessible design requirements,
accommodations and modifications. The results of the project will
enable persons with disabilities to pursue homeownership and rental
opportunities. The project will conduct testing, filing of complaints
and lawsuits, as appropriate. These activities will be conducted
in the Metropolitan Chicago area and throughout the state of Illinois.
ALMC also plans to subcontract with Pilsen Alliance (a neighborhood
grassroots organization) to promote fair housing in Chicagos Spanish-speaking
and immigrant communities. Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based Component
Award Amount - $274,994 This project, conducted by the Chicago Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law will investigate and enforce
fair housing laws, and develop/implement strategies to combat predatory
lending practices. Serving all protected classes under the Fair
Housing Act, as amended, activities will cover the Chicago metropolitan
area, focusing on three communities in the Chicago Empowerment Zone:
the near West Side, Pilsen/Little Village, and the near South Side. John Marshall Law School will utilize FHIP funding for its Fair Housing Legal Clinic. The Clinic will provide legal representation to persons who have meritorious complaints involving housing discrimination. It will also provide testing services when necessary to detect whether discrimination has occurred. Complaints handled by the Clinic will include, but are not limited to, the rental and sale of property, as well as issues concerning mortgage lending, insurance redlining, reasonable accommodation and modification requests, and affordable housing for persons in all protected classes under the Fair Housing Act. Geographic areas to be served are in the Chicago/Metropolitan area, and its Empowerment Zones; South Side, West Side and Pilsen/Little Village Clusters, which include the communities of Austin, Humbolt Park, Lower West Side, Near South Side, Near North Side, East and West Garfield Park, North and South Lawndale in the City of Chicago. The project will also serve parts of Northwest Indiana. Homewood South
Suburban Housing Center Private South Suburban Housing Center has served over 100 municipalities in the south Chicago metropolitan region, and will continue to do so with this 3-year project. Some project objectives include: maximize the number of enforcement actions through a comprehensive testing program; process an increased number of fair housing complaints to exceed present 220 p/year; conduct approx. 360 matched tests and 60 accessibility tests; resolve legitimate complaints, where possible, and file enforcement actions with HUD and expand education and outreach to underserved communities through collaborations with local community organizations, to include local disability rights groups. Rockford Prairie
State Legal Services, Inc. Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. will engage in Fair Housing activities in 35 counties in Illinois (excluding Cook and Will counties). Some grant activities will include: legal education presentations on fair housing rights to all protected classes under the FH Act and Illinois Human Rights Act; a series of workshops on default/foreclosure; special presentations directed to homeless individuals and their advocates addressing housing discrimination and financial literacy issues; 2 presentations to the disabled and their advocates; and translation of all new project materials into Spanish and conduct presentations to the Spanish speaking population. Wheaton HOPE
Fair Housing Center Private HOPE Fair Housing Center, the oldest fair housing center in Illinois, will continue its comprehensive enforcement program throughout the state of Illinois, to include 5 suburban, 26 rural counties and 6 established cities of Illinois. Some activities under this 3 year program will include: complaint based and systemic testing to eliminate racial and ethnic steering; conduct a total of approx 1,000 tests, to include 300 telephonic tests; 30 non-testing investigations in 6 cities to uncover harassment and overzealous enforcement of housing codes and MLS listings; and collaborations with (15) community and governmental agencies to carry-out education and outreach activities. Winnetka
Interfaith Housing Center of Northern Suburbs This
12-month enforcement project will serve sixteen northern Cook and
southern Lake County suburbs north of Chicago, encompassing over
430,000 people. The scope of the work will include: outreach targeted
to all protected classes with emphasis on new immigrants; investigate
at least 35 bona-fide complaints; refer at least 15 enforcement
proposals to HUD; examine results of approx. 50 paired tests completed
under the previous PEI grant; conduct 2 fair housing/predatory lending
victim assistance sessions; and provide FH Act accessibility standard
information and Energy Star information to at least 5 area municipal
building code departments and developers.
IowaDes Moines
Iowa Civil Rights Commission The Iowa Civil Rights Commission (ICRC) is an antidiscrimination enforcement agency, well-known for its ability to successfully administer fair housing educational outreach programs. ICRC will work in collaboration with other grassroots and faith-based organizations throughout Iowa. ICRC will provide materials and training regarding fair housing rights and responsibilities under state and federal laws at cultural festivals, fairs, and conferences; and conduct an extensive fair housing media campaign, in both print and video format in newspapers, at movie theaters, and on television throughout Iowa.
Kentucky. Lexington
Lexington Fair Housing Council Lexington
Fair Housing Council will conduct this 3-year project throughout
the state of Kentucky. The funds will be used to complete and implement
the following activities: pursue pending cases to completion; complete
660 fair housing tests statewide, covering accessibility, rental,
disability and sales discrimination; process 240 intakes; file enforcement
actions; continue a Predatory Lending Prevention Program to prevent
egregious loans; maintain a Speakers Bureau to provide fair housing
classes to housing providers; and maintain a hotline to offer fair
housing legal advice to housing providers.
LouisianaNew Orleans
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Greater
New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (FHAC) will continue its
services to all individuals and families in the New Orleans MSA.
FHAC proposes to utilize funding to conduct intake of new complaints
alleging violations of federal and state fair housing laws; analyze
complaints to determine appropriate investigative technique and/or
referral; ensure appropriate investigations of housing discrimination
by conducting paired rental/sales/insurance and lending tests; and
conduct recruitment and training of new testers. FHAC will also
conduct enforcement projects to assist in determining the nature/extent
of discrimination against underserved populations. FHAC will conduct
education and outreach activities and provide training to local
governments, housing consumers, and housing providers.15
Maine Portland Pine
Tree Legal Services will operate as Maines only statewide full service
fair housing project. The project will focus on enforcement of federal/state
laws prohibiting discrimination against tenants and homeowners in
mobile home parks, which is the standard for low-income individuals.
Project activities will include complaint intake, investigations
and testing. The project will also focus on the underserved and
disabled that are immigrants and/or have limited English proficiency.
Education and Outreach efforts will be designed to strengthened
awareness of fair housing and fair lending protection.
Massachusetts
Fair
Housing Center of Greater Boston Activities of this project will benefit all protected classes under the FH Act in the Greater Boston area. Project activities will include: intake and investigation of inquiries; the development of complaint-based and systemic cases; recruitment and training of testers; conducting individual rental, sales, mortgage lending and insurance testing; and assisting individual home seekers to pursue complaints through HUD/FHAP and the courts. FHCGB will also use its FHIP funds for education and outreach activities and designing materials to increase fair housing awareness. Holyoke
Housing Discrimination Project The Housing Discrimination Project, Inc. (HDP) will operate in the 5 counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire and Worcester County. The project will serve all people in the area with an emphasis on populations of color and new immigrants (Latino, East Asian, African, and Eastern European). HDP intends to conduct workshops at shelters, workshops for first-time homebuyers, predatory lending workshops and workshops for LEP and disabled individuals and housing providers. HDP will also perform complaint intake, test for discrimination in the rental, sales and insurance industries, conduct voice recognition tests, monitor housing advertising, and distribute fair housing information. HDP will work with local governments and many organizations to provide testing and fair housing training. Worcester Legal
Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts along with the City of Worcester has developed The Worcester Fair Housing Project. The Project will conduct fair housing investigations and enforcement activities throughout central MA, where no other fair housing program is based. The project will run a comprehensive testing program, conduct complaint-based and audit tests, conduct workshops to targeted groups, to include LEP persons, chronically homeless and the elderly and disabled. The project will work with a local grass-roots faith-based community organization and local minority serving institutions to provide education and recruit testers.
MichiganAnn ArborFair
Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan The Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan will expand its fair housing enforcement services into three Michigan counties: Livingston, Ingham, and Jackson while continuing services in Washtenaw, Lenawee and Monroe counties. Goals for this 36-month project include: intake of new fair housing complaints; conducting tests; recruiting and training of new testers; and gaining reasonable accommodations for disabled complainants. Detroit
Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit This 36 month project will offer various enforcement services to the metro Detroit area, to include: receipt and processing of complaints; investigation of fair housing tests; refer cases to Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit (FHC) attorneys for administrative court action; conduct 165 systemic tests of housing providers to result in referrals to HUD/DOJ for administrative enforcement; and conducting settlements. The FHC will also coordinate fair housing education and outreach activities to the project area.
Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc. (LAD) Fair Housing Center will conduct a 12-month project within the Oakland and Macomb Counties of Michigan. LAD will: train 100 new testers representing a variety of protected classes; conduct 140 paired tests; submit enforcement proposals; complete conciliation agreements; hold educational sessions, including sessions on energy efficiency and accessibility issues; and work to target community and faith-based groups and MSIs as audiences for fair housing educational programs. Flint
Legal Services of Eastern Michigan Legal Services of Eastern Michigan plans to continue sponsorship of its Fair Housing Center of Eastern Michigan. The Center will provide fair housing testing and enforcement services to four counties in mid-Michigan, Bay, Genesee, Midland, and Saginaw. The area includes 2 cities in the State with the highest levels of segregation. The center will offer proactive services by conducting both survey testing as well as complaint-based testing. The Center will also train testers, conduct tests, file enforcement proposals and conduct two targeted investigations. The Center plans to partner with many other agencies in its delivery of fair housing services, including local units of government and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Grand Rapids Fair
Housing Center of West Michigan The
Center organization will conduct fair housing enforcement services
in an eleven county area in west Michigan. Services will also be
provided to two thirds of the State where there is no fair housing
presence. Under this project the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan
will: provide enforcement services to approx. 360 clients, including
complaint intake, counseling, investigation and mediation; recruit
and train testers; conduct matched paired tests and site accessibility
tests; partner with both local, national and government agencies,
HUD, faith- and community-based groups to combat fair housing practices;
and provide fair housing education and outreach to over 60,000 English
and non/English speaking clients. Fair
Housing Center of Southwest Michigan The
Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan will provide enforcement
services as well as limited outreach and education over a 12-month
grant period. The projects services will be made available to nine
counties of southwest Michigan. The counties include Barry, Branch,
Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Allegan, St. Joe, Berrien, Cass and Van Buren.
Activities will include: investigating new fair housing complaints;
rental/sales paired testing, recruiting new fair housing testers;
and gaining reasonable accommodations and/or modifications. Collaborations
with other organizations will also assist efforts to remove regulatory
barriers and to increase access to affordable housing by low income
individuals and families.
MinnesotaMinneapolisLegal
Aid Society of Minneapolis The
Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis (LASM) will partner with Southern
Minnesota Regional Legal Services to enforce fair housing laws for
low-income and disabled protected class members in the 7 county
areas of the Minneapolis, St. Paul area and throughout the 53 Southern
and Central Minnesota counties. LASM will provide referral and technical
assistance to clients, advocates, agencies and lawyers throughout
Minnesota who assert their rights under the FHAA and local laws.
Mississippi
Missouri
The
Metropolitan Saint Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council (EHOC)
is the only private, not-for-profit fair housing enforcement agency
serving the metro St. Louis area. This area includes counties in Southern
Illinois and eastern Missouri. EHOC proposes to identify violations
of fair housing law and to assist home seekers of all protected classes
to assert their fair housing rights. In addition, they will work to
substantially increase the number and availability of accessible affordable
housing units for all protected classes through the 8 county bi-state
regions. The program will serve to offer a full service fair housing
investigative and testing activities for the 4th most segregated metropolitan
area in the nation.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Family Housing Advisory Services, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based Component
Award Amount - $275,000
Family Housing Advisory Services, Inc. operates the Fair Housing Center of Nebraska as one of its key programs. The Center will focus its expanding enforcement program activities to underserved populations of Nebraska and W. Iowa, with a focus on new immigrants and especially individuals/families with limited or no English skills, homeless, and returning veterans and other persons w/disabilities. Projects activities will include: on-site complaint intake at shelters, the Salvation Army, YWCA offices, faith-based and community-based organizations; assessment and investigations of all alleged complaints; conducting matched paired tests of rental/sales/lending complaints; maintain a 24-hour toll free hotline and internet website to assist rural areas of NE; and providing education and outreach services to the general public and fair housing training to staff of community agencies.
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Nevada
Reno
Silver
State Fair Housing Council
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based Component
Award Amount - $268,606
Silver State Fair Housing Council (SSFHC) proposes to expand its current affirmative enforcement program, especially its enforcement of Fair Housing Act accessibility requirements, to include the entire state of Nevada. Activities will serve all protected classes under the FHA and will include identification and tracking of new multifamily housing, from building permits to certificates of occupancy, and conducting on-site assessments for enforcement purposes. SSFHC will also recruit testers to conduct tests and facilitate reasonable accommodation/modification requests. Activities will also include promoting compliance with fair housing law by conducting a total of 23 trainings for housing providers, design professionals, community advocates, and attorneys; and providing fair housing information through website, advertising, and community outreach; and conducting complaint intake and assessment.
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New Jersey
HackensackFair
Housing Council of Northern New Jersey
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
Fair Housing Council of Northern New Jersey (FHCNNJ) proposes to conduct a rigorous fair housing and investigations project. The project will be conducted statewide. FHCNN proposes to train 90 testers, conduct rental/sales tests, distribute 6000 Fair Housing flyers to community groups, faith-based organizations, local shops, and markets and other places people congregate. The project will serve people affected by race and color as well as persons with disabilities and LEP families.
Newark
Citizen Action of New Jersey Education and Outreach
Initiative General Component
Award
Amount - $100,000 Citizen Action of New Jersey (NJCA) proposes increasing
the knowledge and understanding of community leaders about predatory
lending in NJ so they may recognize and inform clients how to identify,
screen, and report fair lending complaints. NJCA will works to educate
people about their rights and obligations under the Fair Housing
Act and to increase access to affordable housing through fair and
equal access to credit, capital, and banking services for traditionally
underserved populations, specifically low and moderate income (LMI)
minorities and non-English or limited English speaking adults, seniors
and people with disabilities living in NJs urban areas.
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New Mexico
Albuquerque
ACORN Associates
Education and Outreach Initiative General Component
Award Amount - $99,974
ACORN Associates will conduct education and outreach on sub prime and predatory lending in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Along with grassroots and faith-based partners, ACORN Associates will serve all protected classes with special focus on traditionally underserved minorities and immigrants, particularly LEP individuals, female heads-of-household, the elderly and disabled. The organization will hold an array of fair housing workshops to educate the public on their rights and responsibilities under the FHAct, and to increase minority homeownership by preventing foreclosures and homelessness due to predatory and sub prime lending.
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New York
Brooklyn
South Brooklyn Legal Services, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $183,333
South Brooklyn Legal Services, Inc., intends to continue their work preventing foreclosures and other housing discrimination in home financing and sales in NYC. The organization plans to conduct education workshops, conduct initial intake interviews, investigate, resolve or send complaints to U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and conduct training for attorneys and advocates assisting individuals who have been targeted for discriminatory financing and sales practices.
New York Agency for Community Affairs Education and
Outreach Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $99,427
New York Agency for Community Affairs will conduct targeted outreach through grassroots organizations and faith-based institutions to reach underserved populations in the Nassau County area. While serving all protected classes, outreach activities will target underserved immigrant, disabled, and minority populations, particularly those with limited English proficiency and in communities with high loan denial rates such as: New York/New Jersey region, specifically in Nassau County and Long Island in the following towns and villages: Baldwin, Elmont/South Floral Park, Freeport, Glen Cove, Hempstead, Roosevelt, Uniondale and Westbury/New Cassel. In addition, HMDA data analysis will be conducted to determine lending impediments and to educate the public and lenders about the need to address impediments to homeownership.
Buffalo
Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $263,846
Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc., will vigorously provide fair housing enforcement services in the Buffalo-Niagara region. Some of the activities of this 3 year project will include: intake of allegations of discrimination; conduct testing activities; file verified complaints with HUD and FHAP; mediate valid discrimination cases; conduct 12 training sessions for staff of 2 grass-roots/faith-based organizations and 2 minority servicing institutions; and administer a Revolving Litigation Fund, through previous FHIP grants, to provide fair housing litigation costs including payment of expert witness fees.
Buffalo
Urban League Education and
Outreach Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $90,000
The Buffalo Urban League (BUL) will prepare and correlate fair housing materials in English and Spanish (and other languages as needed) at groups through providing brochures, flyers, door hangers and pamphlets about fair housing, mortgage foreclosure prevention, and predatory lending. BUL will conduct outreach and marketing activities to identify and recruit target population through print and electronic media. Activities will include radio appearances, production of a public access television show, advertisements in community newspapers that target the minority population, and articles to be published in minority newspapers advising of fair housing rights.
Long Island
Long Island Housing Services, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $270,417
Long Island Housing Services, Inc. (LIHS) will conduct a 3 year project that will assist continued efforts to identify and assist in eliminating patterns of discriminatory policies and practices that adversely affect people with disabilities, Blacks, Hispanics, non-English proficient persons and families with children. LIHS will conduct outreach to service providers and affected groups, using HUD as a front line enforcement tool for cases having sufficient evidence. LIHS will also recruit and train testers, investigate complaints, facilitate legal actions and file complaints with HUD. LIHS plans to co-sponsor or participate in fair housing seminars and encourage compliance by local governments with current accessibility standards.
New
York City
HELP Social Service Corporation
Private Enforcement Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $274,995
HELP Social Service Corporation (HELP) will conduct fair housing enforcement activities in NY City, by contract with their entity-the Fair Housing Justice Center. FHIP funds will be utilized to conduct complaint intake and processing; conduct tests in response to complaints; recruit and train testers and student interns; make referrals; conduct fair housing training for staff at HELP; conduct systemic rental and sales testing, and conduct education and outreach to individuals regarding their rights under the FHAct.
Rochester
Legal Assistance of Western N.Y., Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $197,500
Legal Assistance of Western N.Y., Inc. (LAWNY) will continue the work on its Fair Housing Enforcement project for the Finger Lakes Region (FHEP) in Monroe County and five surrounding rural counties. These counties have a continual growth in the Hispanic population, and the lack of awareness of fair housing laws is evident in zoning laws and newspaper advertising. LAWNY will also implement a rural area testing component, the first of its kind in New York State. In coordination with the Geneva Human Rights Commission, the FHAP in Geneva, NY, LAWNYs testing coordinator will refer complaints filed with GHRC to LAWNY for testing. Complaints from five counties will be investigated/tested, and referred to LAWNY attorneys for enforcement when discriminatory practices are corroborated.
Syracuse
Fair Housing Council of New York, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $211,346
The Fair Housing Council of New York, Inc. will conduct an enforcement project in the New York State counties of Cuyahoga, Onondaga, Oswego, Jefferson and St. Lawrence. Proposed activities will include: complaint intake for fair housing and predatory lending, conducting systemic investigations of discrimination and redlining, conducting testing, provide housing counseling, and various education and outreach activities. The project will serve all persons protected by the Fair Housing Act (including recent immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos and other ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, families with children and those who have Limited English Proficiency).
White
Plains
Westchester Residential Opportunities
Private Enforcement Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $261,895
Westchester Residential Opportunities (WRO) will conduct systemic fair housing testing and provide assistance to victims of housing discrimination. WRO will conduct enforcement activities in Westchester, Putman and Rockland counties and will investigate both rental and sales-based discrimination. WRO have partnered with the Westchester and Rockland Human Rights Commissions to coordinate and implement this initiative.
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New Hampshire
Concord
New
Hampshire Legal Assistance
Private Enforcement Initiative General Component
Award Amount - $223,557
New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA) proposes to continue a multi-faceted, statewide strategy to combat housing discrimination. HJP staff attorneys investigate fair housing complaints and file complaints with HUD, the NH Commission for Human Rights, and in state and federal courts. They will resume their mortgage lending testing program, make modifications to NHLAs web-based case management system; improve its website to ensure maximum accessibility for persons with disabilities and LEP; conduct forums for mentally and physically disabled tenants in elderly housing; and increase opportunities for families w/children to name a few activities.
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North Dakota
Bismarck Fair Housing of the Dakotas
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based Component
Award Amount - $220,546
Fair Housing of the Dakotas (FHD) will operate in North and South Dakota and serve the residents in those two states. FHDs main goal is to strengthen enforcement activities through testing and other investigative methods, resulting in providing remedies for acts of discrimination in housing transactions. FHD will conduct rental and mortgage lending tests, conduct 24 Fair Housing workshops, distribute publications on fair housing, reach out to 45 underserved communities, collaborate with other organizations and provide accessibility or predatory/lending trainings. This is the only FHIP in the two-state region and in the Denver region
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Ohio
Akron
Fair
Housing Contact Service
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
This 12-month project will provide fair housing services throughout Summit, Start, Portage, Medina, and Tuscarawas Counties in Northeastern Ohio. There is no other FHIP presence in the surrounding area. Fair Housing Contact Services will service all persons protected under the Federal, state and local fair housing laws. Activities under this project will include the following: increase language access to present services for deaf and partially deaf clients, as well as LEP individuals, through translation services; conduct fair housing investigations to include rental, internet, and accessibility testing; hold a fair housing accessibility training, as part of other trainings to be collaborated with our state FHAP agency [Ohio Civil Rights Commission]; onsite monitoring and 25 investigations of prior fair housing complaints; and assist clients with disabilities w/respect to reasonable accommodations.
Cincinnati
Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati Private
Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $273,815
The Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati (HOME) program will address housing discrimination against all protected classes under the Fair Housing Act, and its amendments, in any covered housing transaction whether rental, sales, or financing. HOME estimates that they will receive complaints during the project term. In addition, to responding to complaints initiated by victims of discrimination, HOME will conduct systemic or random matched pair tests. Sales testing will be conducted to ensure housing accessibility for persons with disabilities. HOME will conduct an audit of various multifamily developments. In cooperation with a local grassroots organization, HOME will conduct outreach and fair housing education through churches in a low and moderate-income Cincinnati neighborhood. Three (3) training events also will be held for mental health providers.
Cleveland
Housing Advocates, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
Housing Advocates, Inc. (HAI) will conduct a six component program to be implemented over 3-years. The project, will include the following: predatory lending enforcement; disability housing enforcement; analysis of Tenant Selection Action Plans in PHAs; testing of discrimination complaints; and a linguistic profiling project. The programs will serve all protected classes in the regions of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Portage, Stark, Summit, and the 10 counties surrounding the Columbus area.
Housing
Research and Advocacy Center
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
Housing Research and Advocacy Center (Housing Center) and its subcontractors, Fair Housing Resource Center and Heights Community Congress will provide fair housing enforcement services in the Cleveland, Ohio metropolitan area which includes Cuyahoga, Geauga and Lorain Counties. The services will be extended to all protected classes, with the focus on reducing discrimination against persons with disabilities, African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos and families with children. The Housing Center will perform testing in the areas of rental, lending, sales and insurance. The Housing Center will conduct education and outreach activities and survey newly constructed multifamily housing and monitor housing advertisements.
Dayton
Miami
Valley Fair Housing Center, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount: $275,000
The Miami Valley Fair Housing Center, Inc. will provide a comprehensive systemic investigation program to address predatory lending, reasonable accommodations, and linguistic profiling. The project will also conduct education and outreach to residents in the Montgomery County area of Ohio.
Painesville
Fair
Housing Resource Center, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
The Fair Housing Resource Center, Inc. (Center) will continue its efforts to reduce housing discrimination in Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula Counties. Under this 3 year project, the Centers activities to be completed will be rental testing on the basis of race, disability and familial status; lending and insurance testing.
Toledo
Fair Housing Opportunities, Inc., dba Fair Housing Center
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
The
Fair Housing Center plans to implement a broad-based full-service
fair housing program consisting of victimsassistance, complaint
investigation, outreach to under-served populations, monitoring,
and prevention. The group will investigate complaints (in rental,
sales, lending and predatory lending, appraisal, insurance, zoning,
new construction, rehab, and advertising) from all protected classes
under both federal and state fair housing law. Its activities will
span northwest Ohio, specifically Lucas and Wood Counties and the
cities of Bowling Green and Toledo.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Metropolitan
Fair Housing Council
Private Enforcement Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $274,900
MFHC will continue the expansion of current statement enforcement activities resulting in enforcement remedies under Title VIII to include complaint processing, investigations/testing and complaint referrals to HUD on behalf of all protected classes. Enforcement activities will include complaint-based tests [rental/sales/lending], accessibility audits of covered multi-family homes constructed after March 13, 1991; and the conducting of systemic tests of housing providers. MFHC will also conduct a statewide public information campaign to disseminate fair housing education.
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Oregon
Portland
Fair
Housing Council of Oregon
Private Enforcement Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $275,000
Fair
Housing Council of Oregon will conduct a full service fair housing
enforcement-related project throughout Oregon and SW Washington
State over an 18-month period. Planned activities include: investigation
and referral of fair housing violations to HUD; expansion of accessible,
affordable housing options; implementation of three (3) regional
technical assistance clinics to provide information; and complaint
intake services.
Legal
Aid Services of Oregon
Education and Outreach Initiative General Component
Award Amount - $81,759
Legal Aid Services of Oregon will utilize funds to affirmatively further fair housing through education and outreach activities in Oregon over an 18-month period. Activities will include: development of training materials, fair housing curricula, and sample forms translated into multiple languages, to be posted to FHCOs website; development and delivery of 300 copies of best practices guides; 6 educational tours and seminars to targeted groups covering the history of housing discrimination in Oregon; and the creation and distribution of an information flyer on accessibility requirements for new multifamily housing to architects, contractors and housing consumers.
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Pennsylvania
Erie
St.
Martins Center Education and Outreach
Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $100,000
St.
Martins Center (SMC) is a HUD registered, faith based social services
agency with over 55 years of experience in assisting those in crisis.
The Center is constantly looking to address the needs and improve
the lives of the under served populations. SMC through 28
the EOI program will resume its efforts to improve and strengthen
the filing and tracking of fair housing complaints in Erie, PA through
education and outreach activities.
Glenside
Fair Housing Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
The Fair Housing Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania (FHRC) [formerly the Fair Housing Council of Montgomery County], will conduct a 3-year fair housing enforcement project serving all protected classes and the underserved populations, in the areas of Philadelphia and its surrounding counties of Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware. FHRC will subcontract with several community partners to conduct this project to include: complaint intake/investigation and enforcement of housing rental and sales; monitoring of rental and sales transactions, with a focus on minorities, families w/children, disabled, immigrants, and LEP persons; assisting housing opportunities for the disabled through enforcement of design/construction and accessibility guidelines; increase filing of meritorious complaints w/HUD and courts; and provide fair housing education to all including first time homebuyers.
Pittsburgh
The Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, Inc,
Private Enforcement Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $275,000
The Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, Inc., is proposing a fair housing enforcement program to include testing, outreach and education and complaint intake and referral. The project proposes activities to recruit and train testers; investigate discrimination in rentals, sales and insurance and conduct testing to examine practices of adverse treatment of African Americans, Hispanics and African immigrants in the Western part of the Commonwealth of PA. The target areas include six major rural counties and the City of Pittsburgh. The purpose of the project is to continue to build a strong fair housing enforcement service area, ensuring the availability of effective fair housing services to citizens, and to challenge the absence of local requirements to affirmatively further fair housing.
Swarthmore
Fair Housing Council of Suburban Philadelphia
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $274,818
This
3-year grant will assist Fair Housing Council of Suburban Philadelphia
(FHCSP) in its plight to reduce housing discrimination against protected
classes in Greater 29
Philadelphia through direct, ongoing enforcement and proactive,
systemic investigations. Activities will include: recruit and train
60 new testers; intake and process 210 complaints; conduct approx.
340 tests (inc. rental, sales, mortgage, insurance and accessibility);
refer enforcement actions to HUD, DOJ, Pennsylvania Human Relations
Commission PHRC; work with the PHRC to increase predatory lending
awareness; and conduct education and outreach, to include holding
workshops and trainings, and the massive distribution of fair housing
material.
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Rhode Island
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South Carolina
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Tennessee
Jackson
West
Tennessee Legal Services, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
This 3 year funding will assist West Tennessee Legal Services, Inc.,
with a broad-based fair housing enforcement services to be afforded
to all protected classes in all markets. Activities will be conducted
in all jurisdictions w/the exception of Nashville/Davidson Counties
and the Memphis/Shelby Counties, which are being serviced by Tennessee
FH Council and Memphis Area Legal Services. Activities will include:
complaint intake/investigations; testing and test evaluations; mediation
services; referrals of bona-fide enforcement proposals to HUD/Tennessee
Human Rights and DOJ; representation of bona-fide complainants in
the admin/judicial process; and providing education and outreach
to the general public with a focus on underserved populations.
Nashville Tennessee Fair Housing Council
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based Component
Award Amount - $275,000
The Tennessee Fair Housing Councils project will serve Nashville,
TN MSA, to include Davidson, Cheatham, Dickson, Rutherford, Sumner,
Williamson, and Wilson counties. The project activities will include:
intake/processing of complaints; complaint-based and systemic testing
[sales/rental]; recruitment/training of new testers; a major FH
month activity to be carried with the FHAP agency; 6 fair housing
trainings to individuals with disabilities; and annual training
of college students in partnership with a local MSI
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Texas
Austin
Austin
Tenants Council, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $274,70730
The Austin Tenants Council, Inc., will fight housing discrimination
in the Austin, TX area through the use of intake and referral of
complaints, testing of new developments for accessibility, testing
of assisted and independent living facilities to determine the extent
of discrimination against people with severe disabilities, auditing
and testing media advertising, landlord testing focusing on experiences
of recent immigrants and persons with disabilities; and promote
fair housing through television, radio and print advertisements
focusing on disability and immigrant rights.
Garland
Garland Fair Housing Office
Education and Outreach Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $100,000
Garland Fair Housing Office (GFHO) will provide fair housing services to the City of Garland, TX. The project will include concentrated education and outreach to all protected classes inclusive of underserved populations, immigrants and individuals with Limited English Proficiency. GFHO will conduct an intensive regional media campaign which will inform residents of illegal housing practices and available recourse, including filing of a complaint. Credible complaints will be referred to HUD and the Garland FHAP for full enforcement. The programs goal is to reach approx. 28,000 residents resulting in complaints filed over a 12-month project period.
Houston
Greater
Houston Fair Housing Center
Private Enforcement Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $275,000
Greater Housing Fair Housing Center (GHFHC) will provide enforcement services to all protected classes in the Houston metro area. This 12-month project will provide activities to include: a complete bilingual full service enforcement capability in English and Spanish; intake and investigations of alleged complaints; conducting systematic investigations, recruitment and training of 20 testers; conducting 85 enforcement tests; conducting 10 accessibility and design audits; and providing education and outreach services for 300 people with a special focus on LEP, immigrant and disabled population. The GHFHC will also partner with disability service groups such as the Houston Center for Independent Living, to increase compliance with the Act and work closely with faith-based organizations to facilitate fair housing education and enforcement.
San Antonio
San Antonio Fair Housing Council, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000.0031
This
3-year project will conduct fair housing enforcement activities
in Bexar County and an additional 26 counties in South TX. San Antonio
Fair Housing Council, Inc., (SAFHC) will conduct intake and preliminary
investigations of fair housing claims using testing to include rental,
sales, and lending. In addition, SAFHC will conduct site assessments;
assist consumers with disabilities, reasonable accommodation and/or
mod requests; and conduct 60 meetings or training in Bexar County
and 210 in other areas of South Texas.
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Utah
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Vermont
Burlington
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity
Education and Outreach Initiative General
Component Award Amount - $100,000
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) will address Vermonts documented and urgent need for increased fair housing education and outreach by mobilizing a variety of partners from faith-based, grassroots, and homeless activist organizations as well as municipal and state governments. CVOEO will partnership with a state agencies and several community partners. CVOEO will work to overcome the regulatory, social and political barriers to fair and affordable housing in Vermont through a series of educational workshops for neighbors, community groups, and municipal officials, and the development of a fair housing educational DVDs.
Vermont
Legal Aid, Inc.
Private Enforcement Initiative General Component
Award Amount - $275,000
This organization will implement a special fair housing enforcement project which it titles The Vermont Fair Housing Council (VFHC). The VFHC will provide fair housing education, outreach and private fair housing enforcement throughout the state of Vermont. The VFHC currently operates as a fair housing program in rural and underserved areas of VT. The proposed project includes activities such as education and support through 5 session for first time homebuyers; published material on diverse areas of the protections under the Fair Housing Act; examining and challenging where appropriate local zoning and planning regulations which impede fair housing; and conducting sales and rental test. In addition, the proposal includes activities which will address enforcement and monitoring needs of individuals with disabilities, families with children and recent immigrants.
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Virginia
Charlottesville Piedmont Housing Alliance (PHA)
Education and Outreach Initiative General Component
Award Amount - $62,217
Piedmont Housing Alliance will continue its established, comprehensive initiative to inform the public about their rights and obligations under the federal Fair Housing Act and Virginia Fair Housing Law. Along with existing and newly established partnerships, some of the activities will be: 12 educations sessions including a fair housing forum; 12 classes to raise fair housing awareness in home sales [predatory lending, steering, etc.]; 2 Fair and Accessible Housing seminars and 4 clinics; extensive community outreach, including print, radio and TV advertisements; and complaint intake and referrals.
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Washington
Spokane
Northwest
Fair Housing Alliance
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based
Component Award Amount - $275,000
The Northwest Fair Housing Alliance (NWFHA) is the only fair housing advocacy agency in Eastern Washington who provides fair housing education and outreach activities. The NWFHA will provide fair housing enforcement services to all of the protected classes. The geographic area covers 17 counties of Eastern/Central Washington. Activities to be undertaken include: testing (paired rental and sales), counseling, complaint intake and referrals. Specific emphasis will be directed to people of foreign national origin (Latin Americans), persons with disabilities homeless persons in Spokane County and African Americans.
Tacoma
Fair Housing Center of Washington
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based Component
Award Amount - $275,000
The Fair Housing Center will utilize FHIP grant funds in Western
and Central Washington. In collaboration with faith- and community-based
organizations and the FHAP agency, over the next 3 years activities
will include: intake and investigation of complaints of housing
discrimination in rental, sales, and mortgage lending; filing complaints
with HUD; assist with 225 reasonable accommodation/modification
requests; recruit/train 30 testers; and provide education and outreach
to the general population, to include homeless shelters and transitional
housing dwellers and LEP new immigrants.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Metropolitan
Milwaukee Fair Housing Council
Private Enforcement Initiative Performance Based Component
Award Amount - $274,921
Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council will conduct a statewide enforcement project throughout Wisconsin through a linkage with its satellite offices, The Fair Housing Center of Northeast Wisconsin and The Fair Housing Center of Greater Madison. This combined effort will cover 62% of the States population. Some services will include: 1) conduct a multi-jurisdictional investigation of systemic discrimination against African Americans, and the underserved populations in assisted living dwellings; 2) conduct intake and investigations of predatory lending practices; 3) ensure housing accessibility and opportunities for persons w/disabilities; 4) partner w/faith-based and community-based organizations to recruit/train testers; and, 5) provide direct access to complaint services for all.
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