Each year, the Housing Center hosts a Fair Housing Celebration during April, Fair Housing Month. This year, the event features local artist and Cleveland blogger, Julia Kuo, creator of the 100 Days in Cleveland blog, which celebrates beautiful and unique locations in the greater Cleveland area. Artwork from her blog, which is featured in her new book co-authored with Justin Glanville, New to Cleveland: A Guide to (re)Discovering the City, will be available for purchase at the event.
The event this year will also feature a youth art competition, which celebrates diverse neighborhoods. Julia will serve as one of the judges. Ms. Kuo will produce a video, to be available on YouTube and the
Housing Center’s website, to encourage students to submit artwork depicting what it means to be a good neighbor in their community. Monetary prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of the art contest.
The 7th Annual Fair Housing Celebration also honors local advocates in fair housing, commemorates the passage of the Fair Housing Act and engages the community in housing discrimination awareness. A ticket to the Fair Housing Celebration includes a sampling of a variety of delicious wines, light hors d’oeuvres and the opportunity to win one of our exciting raffle baskets. The 7th Annual Fair Housing Celebration will be held in a new location this year: the Ballroom at Cleveland State University’s dramatic new Student Center on April 12th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30.
The 7th Annual Fair Housing Celebration is sponsored by Thacker Martinsek, Third Federal Bank, Kondik Advertising, Dollar Bank and Fifth Third Bank. The Youth Art Competition receives public support with local tax dollars from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, to preserve and enrich our region’s artistic and cultural heritage. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture generously awarded the Housing Center a project-specific grant to support our youth art competition, including the production of the qualifying video by Julia Kuo. Please join us in April to celebrate Fair Housing Month in Northeast Ohio!