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By Maggie Zinkel, Fair Housing Intake and Grant Coordinator In D.C. there are seemingly endless options for things to do with your dog(s), from walks on the Mall to pet-friendly restaurants and [...]

By Kristen C. Barry, Public Accommodations Manager Restroom accessibility for transgender individuals has recently been at the center of a heated public debate. As a public accommodations [...]

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 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 [...]