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 [...]
By Sarah Pauly, Fair Employment Program Manager This week, the Illinois Department of Human Rights found substantial evidence that Exxon engaged in sexual orientation discrimination in [...]
By Grant Beck, ERC Communications Officer Despite the tremendous momentum of marriage equality throughout 2014, the new year presents a whole new set of challenges for the LGBT community. [...]
By Stephanie Gonzalez Palumbo, Immigrant Rights Program Manager In a primetime address last night, President Obama announced the executive action that he and his administration will take in lieu [...]
