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

May 24, 2024Latest News, Press Release

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 […]

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

April 30, 2024Latest News, Press Release

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 […]

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

April 26, 2024Latest News, Press Release

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 […]

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

August 10, 2022Latest News, Press Release

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 […]

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

May 5, 2022Latest News, Press Release

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 […]

FAIR HOUSING LAWSUIT FILED ALLEGING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION AGAINST 38 PROPERTIES NATIONWIDE

March 31, 2022Latest News, Press Release

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 […]

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

February 7, 2022Blog, Latest News, Press Release

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 […]

Housing Research & Advocacy Center Rebranded As Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research

April 1, 2018Latest News, Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 2, 2018

Contact: Carrie Pleasants, Executive Director, (216) 361-9240, cpleasants@thehousingcenter.org

Advocacy Center board and staff are excited to announce the rebranding of the Housing Research & Advocacy Center to its new name, the Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research (The Fair Housing Center). The new brand identity more accurately reflects the organization as a fair housing agency, borne out of the passage of the Fair Housing Act 50 years ago on April 11^th. The new name further signifies a commitment to protecting fair housing rights and to producing high-quality housing-related research.

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