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Disparate Impact SCOTUSblog coverage and the ruling: http://www.scotusblog.com/case- files/cases/texas-department-of-housing-and-community-affairs-v-the-inclusive- communities-project-inc/ Feb [...]

By Kate Scott, Fair Housing Director This week marked the 48th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act. After a years long, hard fought battle, Congress passed the Act on April 11, [...]

By Camille Brown, Fair Housing Program Coordinator Recently, there’s been a lot of attention on the manmade disaster in Flint that has resulted in an entire community suffering from the [...]

By Kate Scott, Director of Fair Housing Earlier this month, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur genius Matthew Desmond published Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Using mixed social [...]

  By Katherine Pearson, Senior Manager for Accessibility Rights The concept of food deserts isn’t something new, but rarely do people acknowledge the disproportionate effect they have on [...]

By Melvina C. Ford, Executive Director Ninety years after the first celebration of Black History Month in 1926, the historic, unfair and unlawful relationship between race and criminality remains [...]

By Emily Simonsen, External Affairs Intern On February 23, 2016, Camille Brown, Fair Housing Coordinator for the Equal Rights Center, visited St. Petersburg, Florida to join a panel of speakers [...]

By Kate Scott, Director of Fair Housing In late 2015, I moved across the country to begin work as the Equal Rights Center’s (ERC) new Director of Fair Housing. Prior to this move, I had resigned [...]

By Melvina C. Ford, Executive Director The Housing Choice Voucher Program is the largest federal housing subsidy program, assisting more than 2 million low income, elderly and or disabled [...]