Housing discrimination? Not on our watch! ✋🏡 Whether it’s based on **family status**, **disability**, or **national origin**, everyone deserves a fair chance at housing. Know your rights and protect them! #FairHousing #EqualRights #HousingForAll When it comes to housing, **no one should be discriminated against. Fair Housing laws exist to protect YOU! Don’t let discrimination go unchecked—speak out! 🏡 #EqualRights #FairHousing #StopDiscrimination #NYSHCR
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Elimination of unlawful housing discrimination* ranks as the agency’s priority. However, in addition to Fair Housing counseling and investigations, seeking redress for victims where compelling evidence is gathered, we also serve in many other capacities to improve housing conditions for residents. Routinely, clients are referred to us by word-of-mouth and a wide variety of private and public agencies to assist in counseling to resolve many landlord-tenant disputes related to: relationships/communication with housing providers; illegal eviction actions (such as denial of essential services like heat, water, electricity); securing or maintaining housing; improving conditions of habitability (e.g. sanitation/plumbing, infestation, fallen ceilings, leaking roofs/windows); denial of reasonable accommodation (e.g. for creating ramp or parking accessible for tenant’s use); setting illegal occupancy rules, etcetera. Examples of local government agencies from which clients are commonly referred are: County Courts and Departments of Health, Handicapped, Senior and Social Services, Police, as well as Town Building and Code Enforcement Departments. Long Island Housing Services also counsels homeowners that are in danger of foreclosure because of changed economic circumstances (e.g. loss of or diminished income related to hospitalization, illness, job loss, death or separation of families). Our unique fair housing advocacy program distinguishes from any other HUD-approved, certified Housing Counseling agency that serves Long Island. The agency has been in the forefront to investigate and challenge predatory lending and has served with the New Yorkers for Responsible Lending Steering Committee since its inception. "Our mission is the elimination of unlawful housing discrimination and promotion of decent and affordable housing through advocacy and education."
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http://www.lifairhousing.org
Long Island Housing Services, Inc.的外部链接
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Long Island Housing Services, Inc.员工
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Ian Wilder
Executive Director at Long Island Housing Services, Inc.
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Aidan Slevin
Associate at Slevin & Slevin, Esqs.
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Ana Elena Poppe
Outreach Media Coordinator at Long Island Housing Services, Inc.
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Jill Garrick
Non profit financial manager with experience managing multiple federal, state, and private funding sources
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Personal Finance columnist says CFPB is important 'one stop shop' to protect consumers https://ow.ly/bLoS50V3OLT But consumers, on the other hand, if you don't have this agency, you're stuck going to all sorts of different agencies. You might go to the attorney general's office in your state. You might go to the Better Business Bureau. You might go to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. This is kind of a one-stop shop, and what's good about a one-stop shop is they can spot trends. They can spot when they're seeing a lot of reports against one company doing XYZ. And if they're going against the law, I think it could be easier to find and to, you know, bring action against that company. That would be my argument. That would be why I think this does have value.
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Neutering the CFPB: A Banker Speaks Out https://lnkd.in/gr6q3Kyy Randell Leach: Halting the CFPB’s enforcement and rulemaking efforts only helps predatory lenders and others who are scared of transparency and accountability.
Neutering the CFPB: A Banker Speaks Out
counterpunch.org
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Exploring how innovative solutions could help alleviate the housing crisis and improve economic mobility for all.https://https://lnkd.in/euiuCbNK Quality, affordable housing is out of reach for far too many Americans. This issue touches rural and urban households, young and old, poor and middle class, and households across racial groups. Housing, and where that housing is located, matters a lot. Housing significantly determines access to employment, education, public and social services, and critical amenities that help families achieve economic mobility. The housing crisis is a national issue, and it disproportionately burdens Black Americans. Nearly 60 percent of Black renters and 30 percent of Black homeowners are moderately or severely cost burdened, well above national averages. Legacies of housing discrimination are compounded by continued supply, demand, and geographic imbalances that create acute housing challenges for Black families and impede their pursuit of economic opportunity. A shortfall of housing underpins the current crisis. There were 8.2 million fewer housing units than needed in 2023 to meet the needs of American families. Without decisive action, that gap could grow to 9.6 million units by 2035. While not without trade-offs, investing to close this housing shortfall could unlock as many as 1.7 million jobs and add nearly $2 trillion to GDP through 2035. These gains would ripple across the US economy. Because Black Americans shoulder an outsize share of the housing burden, they would see material benefits.
Investing in housing: Unlocking economic mobility for Black families and all Americans
mckinsey.com
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Know Your Rights! Did you know that turning down housing based on your source of income could be illegal under NYS laws? It’s not always about saying “no” outright—housing providers can violate the law in more subtle ways too. If you think you’ve been discriminated against, don’t stay silent! Reach out to us for support at 631-567-5111 ext 375 or email Info@LIFairHousing.org. Let’s break those barriers together! DHCR New York State Homes & Community Renewal (HCR) 💪✨ #FairHousing #NYSHCR
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered to stop work. What it could mean for you https://lnkd.in/g52jmFjJ
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Affordability solution: a Long Island public bank https://lnkd.in/exqcbWu6
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Massive FHA cuts would create dysfunction for mortgage industry, homeowners: ex-official. Cuts could lead to an inability to manage Section 8, Community Development Block Grants, Section 202 senior housing and even mortgage insurance, ex-HUD official says https://ow.ly/4JeT50V3x4K If other programs like Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs) or the HOME program — which provides grants to state and local governments to create affordable housing for low-income households — are cut, then cities could lose access to block grants for a variety of investments, including infrastructural and transportation upgrades and small business support for home renovations.
FHA layoffs would create dysfunction for mortgage industry
https://www.housingwire.com
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DYK that 74% of people in the U.S. support building more affordable homes for low-income renters? #OurHomesOurVotes24 is holding candidates accountable to listen to their voters and prioritize housing! Join us: https://ow.ly/Bzb850TZFUY. #NYSHCR
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Affordability debate: Make school meals free for all students to lower cost of living https://lnkd.in/e-3_79R3
Affordability debate: Make school meals free for all students to lower cost of living
newsday.com