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Fair Housing Center Releases Report Examining Access to Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2024 Contact: Austin Cummings, Phone: 216-306-2542, Email: acummings@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, OH – Today, The Fair Housing Center released a first-of-its-kind report examining access to home improvement loans in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.   Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, we examine individual and neighborhood-level outcomes for home improvement loans between 2019 and 2022. During […]

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research and Home Repair Resource Center Launch the Black & Latinx Community Reinvestment Fund Home Repair Program in Cuyahoga County

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 30, 2024Media Contact: Tanesha Hunter | 216-306-2539 | Thunter@thehousingcenter.org Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research and Home Repair Resource Center Launch the Black & Latinx Community Reinvestment Fund Home Repair Program in Cuyahoga County The Program aims to address the housing, health, and safety needs of homeowners in predominantly Black and […]

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2024 State of Fair Housing in Northeast Ohio

Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research Releases 2024 State of Fair Housing in Northeast Ohio Report

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 26, 2024 Contact: Austin Cummings, Phone: 216-306-2542, Email: acummings@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, Ohio – This report is the Fair Housing Center’s eighteenth annual comprehensive examination of fair housing trends for Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, and Medina Counties. The report finds that 56 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, housing […]

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research Releases 2023 State of Fair Housing in Northeast Ohio Report

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research 2728 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200 Cleveland, OH 44115 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 1, 2023 Contact: Austin Cummings, Phone: 216-306-2542, Email: acummings@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, Ohio – This report is the Fair Housing Center’s seventeenth annual comprehensive examination of fair housing trends for Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, and Medina Counties. […]

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Fair Housing Organizations Announce $7.1 Million Dollar Settlement of Disability Discrimination Claims Against Senior Housing Provider; Agreement Requires an Estimated $6.3 Million to be Spent on Accessibility Improvements at 50 Properties

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 10, 2022 For more information contact: Greater Cleveland: Carrie Pleasants, Executive Director, Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research (216) 306-2534 or cpleasants@thehousingcenter.org Fair Housing Organizations Announce $7.1 Million Dollar Settlement of Disability Discrimination Claims Against Senior Housing Provider; Agreement Requires an Estimated $6.3 Million to be Spent on Accessibility […]

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FAIR HOUSING CENTER RELEASES 2022 STATE OF FAIR HOUSING IN NORTHEAST OHIO REPORT

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research 2728 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200 Cleveland, OH 44115 FOR RELEASE: May 5, 2022 Contact: Austin Cummings, Email: acummings@thehousingcenter.org, Phone: 216-361-9240, x212 Cleveland, Ohio — The 2022 State of Fair Housing in Northeast Ohio report finds that the region is failing to address the historical impacts of redlining and […]

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FAIR HOUSING LAWSUIT FILED ALLEGING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION AGAINST 38 PROPERTIES NATIONWIDE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 31, 2022 CLEVELAND, OH  – Today, the Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research (The Fair Housing Center), along with six fellow fair housing organizations across the United States (“Plaintiffs”), announces a federal lawsuit against Clover Group and its related entities (“Defendants”), alleging violations of fair housing laws against persons […]

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research and Other Fair Housing Groups Reach Historic Settlement with Fannie Mae Focused on Rebuilding Communities of Color

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The settlement will directly and immediately benefit the communities of color throughout the Greater Cleveland region and nationwide hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2022, Media Contact: Carrie Pleasants | 216-361-9240, x204 | cpleasants@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, OH — Today, the Housing Research & Advocacy Center dba Fair Housing […]

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Zoning perpetuates racial segregation in Cuyahoga County

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research2728 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200, Cleveland, OH 44115Phone: (216) 361-9240 FOR RELEASE: May 28, 2021Contact: Michael Lepley Phone: 216-306-2540 Email: mlepley@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, Ohio — Zoning perpetuates racial segregation in Cuyahoga County and reduces housing choice for people with disabilities. The Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research’s newest report, […]

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research Releases Report on State of Fair Housing in Northeast Ohio

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research 2728 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200 Cleveland, OH 44115 FOR RELEASE: April 23, 2021 Contact: Michael Lepley, Phone: (216) 361-9240, x209. Email: mlepley@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, Ohio—Housing discrimination persists in Northeast Ohio. In 2020, there were 97 complaints of housing discrimination in Northeast Ohio that were filed with the U.S. Department […]

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Civil Rights Organizations and Tenants Sue Senior Housing Provider for Disability Discrimination at 40 Properties

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 30, 2021 For more information contact: Syracuse: Sally Santangelo, Executive Director, CNY Fair Housing, (315) 471-0420 or ssantangelo@cnyfairhousing.org Pittsburgh: Megan Confer-Hammond, Executive Director, Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, 412-391-2535 ext. 202 or megan@pittsburghfairhousing.org Cleveland: Carrie Pleasants, Executive Director, Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research, (216) 361-9240, Ext. 204 […]

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ACLU, ACLU of Ohio, The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research, and City of Bedford Reach Settlement Repealing the City’s Nuisance Ordinance

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BEDFORD – The City of Bedford agreed to repeal its Criminal Activity Nuisance Ordinance (CANO) and pay a settlement amount of $350,000 as a result of litigation brought by the ACLU, the ACLU of Ohio and The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland on behalf of Beverley Somai, a Bedford resident, and the Fair Housing Center […]

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New report highlights impact of criminal convictions on access to federally subsidized housing

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PRESS RELEASE CONTACT INFORMATION:Charles See, Reentry Housing Committee: 216-798-7717 Malika Kidd, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry: 216-256-7928 Christopher Knestrick, NEOCH: 216-432-0540 Erica Anthony: 631-523-2953 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary, 21, 2020, Cleveland, OH A new report from The Reentry Housing Committee highlights the extent to which Cuyahoga County’s federally subsidized housing providers may deny housing based upon prior criminal […]

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Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research Releases Report on State of Fair Housing in Northeast Ohio

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FOR RELEASE: June 19, 2019

Contact: Michael Lepley
Phone: (216) 361-9240, x209. 
E-mail: mlepley@thehousingcenter.org

Cleveland, Ohio – Housing discrimination persists in Northeast Ohio. In 2018, there were 138 complaints of housing discrimination in Northeast Ohio that were filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development with a 25-year average of 141.1 complaints filed. The Fair Housing Center estimates that there are at least 33,690 instances of housing discrimination annually in the region showing that the complaints filed represent only a small fraction of the total number of instances of housing discrimination in the region. Over the past five years (2014-2018), the most common bases of discrimination alleged in complaints were disability (37.9%), race (20.2%), and familial status (17.5%). The Fair Housing Center uncovered housing discrimination against the LGBTQ community in 34.1% of rental transactions and against survivors of domestic violence in 35.9% of rental transactions.

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New Resource to Appeal Denial of Housing Due to Criminal History

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Kris Keniray, Associate Director
Phone: 216-361-9240, Ext. 208
E-mail: kkeniray@thehousingcenter.org

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Tuesday, June 11, 2019) – The Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research (The Fair Housing Center) has created a new resource to assist those denied housing based on criminal history. Common estimates hold that 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. have a criminal record. Those who have been engaged with the criminal justice system often face immense obstacles to housing upon release from incarceration for years, even decades, to come. Such obstacles impact the individual, their family and the larger community. Access to stable housing is critical to successful community reentry.

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