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Juneteenth + Fair Housing = reasons to look back, look forward! Ten months after freedom came to enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865 — the occasion we remember as Juneteenth — Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal law to call for racial equity in housing. Even at the dawn of emancipation, many already knew: freedom had to include fair housing. Our offices are closed in observance. But even as we look back, we look onward to securing fair housing for all. It’s our commitment not only to freedom, but to liberation. #Juneteenth #FairHousing #civilrightsact1866 #liberation

Purchasing an apartment is one of the most important steps a family takes, but when coop boards turn people down, they routinely refuse to provide reasons. Disclosing the reasons is a matter of simple fairness. The failure to disclose makes it too easy for coop boards to continue to discriminate in violation of the City’s Human Rights Law. That's why we're advocating for enactment of the Fairness in Cooperative Homeownership Act. Read more at bit.ly/CoOpFairness, and add your organization’s name to support the act at bit.ly/48lrIgG.

80% We recently conducted a survey of all PadSplit members across all markets, and more than 80% reported being persons of color. Racial makeup was the key factor leading to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Yet almost every city in America since that point has maintained legislation attempting to restrict the rental of individual rooms or the number of unrelated persons allowed to live together in a home. The correlation between race and income has long been acknowledged; so the disparate impact of laws that inhibit housing affordability could already be inferred to impact race. But we now have enough data to prove clearly that such laws directly & disproportionately impact minorities in clear violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Local zoning laws that prohibit more than 2 unrelated persons from living in a house but allow an unlimited number or related persons or their "domestic servants" clearly violate both the spirit and letter of federal housing protections based on race, but are easily found in hundreds of local codes across the country. Please join me in asking HUD to spend more time and resources to remove affordable housing barriers that also violate the Fair Housing Act. #fairhousing #affordablehousing Nikitra Bailey, Enterprise Community Partners, Solomon Greene, Carol J Galante, Jeffrey Little, Eugene E. Jones Jr., Len Wolfson, YIMBY Law, Pacific Legal Foundation, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Representative Maxine Waters, Tim Scott, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

As a Real Estate Broker, we need to do better to protect all families against bias and discrimination. Decent affordable housing is vital to communities and to our future. Affordable housing can't be financed. Most agents don't want to work in it with families who purchase affordable housing. Is it an appraisal issue or a financing issue or an industry issue? We need to reset standards for financing, purchasing and develop a more attainable program than the 203k to remove barriers to home ownership while providing education and resources for home maintenance and self sufficiency. ??

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Everyone that knows me knows I’m committed to building sustainable yet affordable living spaces.

April is #NationalFairHousingMonth, which commemorates the anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the landmark 1968 civil rights law that made discrimination in housing transactions unlawful. At WayForward Resources, we acknowledge there is more work to do. Ongoing structural disparities caused by racism in our country and community create barriers to well-being and progress, experiences of racial trauma, and decreased access to housing.

Hello friends and colleagues! I wanted to share my first article with Massachusetts Peace Action on the history of grassroots organizing and why it works. In the first of a four-part series, this piece focuses on the civil rights movement. If interested, check it out!

Your Rights Matter: Know Them, Use Them #FairHousingForAll "This Fair Housing Month, empower yourself by getting to know your housing rights. Discrimination is not just unfair—it's illegal. Whether you're renting or buying, knowledge is your best defense. Share this post to spread awareness and encourage a world where everyone has a fair chance at their dream home. #KnowYourRights2024 #raisingtheBAR #communityreinvestment #justeconomy #fairhousingmonth #fairhousingact #yourrightsmatter

For a unique perspective on the election, please check out my brief essay about growing up in Queens and the the biggest cash heist in US history