For persons living at or below the poverty level, access to affordable housing can sometimes mean the difference between homelessness and having a safe, affordable place to live. Some government-subsidized housing programs attempt to address this problem by calculating a tenant’s rent based on his or her income. In theory, tenants who have some portion …
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Issue Spotlight: Leveling the Playing Field for People with Disabilities
Many apartment complexes have “first-come, first-served” parking policies. And, to most, such policies seem reasonable. These policies do not on their face treat anyone differently: whoever gets to the space first gets to park there. And if there are no parking spaces available, or if the only available space is far from a person’s residence, …
Raleigh Celebrates Fair Housing Month
On April 27, fair housing advocates, community members, government officials, and industry stakeholders gathered for Raleigh’s 15th Annual Fair Housing Conference, sponsored by the Fair Housing Project and the City’s Fair Housing Hearing Board. This year’s conference, The 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act: Celebrating Our Past, Shaping Our Future, reflected on the past …
HUD Awards Legal Aid of NC $425,000 to Continue Its Fair Housing Work
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developed (“HUD”) announced that Legal Aid of North Carolina had been awarded two fair housing grants, totaling $425,000, to allow its Fair Housing Project to continue its enforcement and education work throughout the State in the coming year. Through its Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI) grant, …
Fifty Years of the Fair Housing Act
April 11, 2018, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the enactment of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA). The FHA is one of the key pieces of civil rights legislation from the 1960s, following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, employment, government services, and voting based on race, color, national …