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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 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 Sasha Robinson, ERC Intern I was born white and naive, raised ignorant to the benefits I gained from being white and the issues plaguing minority children: gang violence, drug abuse, poor [...]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Senate’s vote for cloture on the Civil Rights Act or 1964, ending a filibuster by the bill’s opponents that had lasted since March 30, 1964, the day [...]