CURRENT FAIR HOUSING NEWS
Some current news relevant to Fair Housing selected from various news and information sources
Sillerman Center
Publishes List of Efforts to Support Housing Integration. The Sillerman
Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University has published
a "landscape survey" on grassroots efforts to support housing
integration in the country, Inhabiting
Change: Roles for Philanthropy in Reducing and Redressing Housing Segregation.
(PRRAC Update, August 27, 2020)
Council on Economic
Mobility RFI About Economic Mobility for Low-Income Households. The
Department of Housing and Urban Development is a member of the Council on
Economic Mobility (Council), a new federal interagency effort. The Council
seeks to create an accountable and effective structure for interagency
collaboration and to use federal authorities to promote family-sustaining careers
and economic mobility for low-income Americans. Recently, the Council published
a request
for information (RFI) to gather feedback from all of its stakeholders. Click
here to view the RFI. Your input is important! The information gathered in
response to the RFI will be used to better inform the Council's priorities,
working group activities, stakeholder engagement, and federal programs.
Feedback on the specific economic mobility, recovery, and resilience challenges
in local communities in the short, medium, and long term is welcome. We
understand that this may be a busy time. While we encourage you to comment as
soon as possible, the RFI is open for comment until October 2, 2020. (HUD
PD&R Updates, August 25, 2020)
HUD Reaches
Conciliation Agreement Resolving National Origin Housing Discrimination The
three Conciliation Agreements with the owners and property management company
of Springdale Ridge Apartments in Springdale, Arkansas, resolves allegations
that they discriminated against several residents because of their national
origin and retaliated against an employee living on site who sought to inform
the residents of their fair housing rights. Read
the agreements. (HUD press release, August 21, 2020)
NCRC And SLEHCRA Call
On Edward Jones To Add St. Louis Assessment Area For New Banking Division.
NCRC and the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance
(SLEHCRA) have urged the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to
require Edward Jones Bank to meet Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) assessment
requirements in the St. Louis area. Read
more. (Just News, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, August 6,
2020)
Why Are There No Disability-Related Questions on the 2020 Census? There is still time to be counted in the 2020 Census! Visit 2020census.gov or call 884-330-2020 and be counted in the 2020 Census today. The deadline to respond is September 30, 2020. (News from NDRN, National Disability Rights Network, August 27, 2020)
