The Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research is a Cleveland based not for profit fair housing agency that promotes equal housing opportunities and positive race relations in Northeast Ohio. For over 35 years, The Fair Housing Center has been working to protect and expand fair housing rights, eliminate housing discrimination, and promote integrated communities. The Fair Housing Center stands in solidarity with those demanding an end to racial injustice.
As our Nation mourns the loss of Congressman and Civil Rights Leader John Lewis, the last of the “Big Six” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young – we are reminded that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s brought us the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and eventually Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (known as the Fair Housing Act) following years of protests, civil unrest, and demands for racial justice. The Fair Housing Act was passed on April 11, 1968, seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Fair Housing Act was intended to ban housing discrimination and eliminate racial segregation. Unacceptably, more than fifty years later the promise of the Fair Housing Act has yet to be realized.
The Fair Housing Center will continue to use fair housing laws to further justice and equality so that everyone in America can have the opportunity to live in a healthy, safe, affordable, well-resourced community free from discrimination where BLACK LIVES MATTER. And we will continue to do our part to make the promise of the Fair Housing Act a reality, and remember these powerful words given to us by the late John Lewis:
If you would like more information about your rights and responsibilities under federal, state and local fair housing laws, please visit our website at www.thehousingcenter.org.