Contact person: Joe Wincze, Fair Housing Association of Connecticut (203)576-8323

    (Bristol, Connecticut, May. 12, 2004) "I can not give you the apartment because you don't qualify for a two-bedroom because you have two children of opposite sex who need their own bedrooms!" This was the response Isabel Luna received when she contacted the New Cambridge Apartments in Bristol, CT when she attempted to apply for a vacant apartment in the summer of 2002. According to Ms.

National Community Reinvestment Coalition Press Release

For Immediate Release

Contact:  Rachel Maleh
202-628-8866

Colonias Press Conference 4/22/04 at 10:30 am at Bienestar Familiar
 
Washington, DC—April 15—The National Community Reinvestment Coalition is pleased to announce the opening of the Border Fair Housing & Economic Justice Center in El Paso, Texas.  The Center is founded by both private and public sector community leaders in the Colonias of the Southwest to address the growing need in that community, and is funded by a one mill

(April 9, 2004) -- The Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ), Wan Kim,  delivered a profound keynote address at the Third Annual Fair Housing Month Celebration Luncheon of the Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches (FHCGPB) yesterday, noting that South Florida is one of the busiest places in the country for DOJ housing discrimination cases.

For the third straight year the FHCGPB assembled national and local experts, to celebrate the 36th Anniversary of the signing of the federal Fair Housing Act,  in Palm Beach

(Santa Ana, California, Mar. 03, 2004) -- The Fair Housing Council of Orange County announced today that the non-profit agency is now accepting nominations from the housing industry for its 4th Annual Fair Housing Leadership Awards to be presented at the Fair Housing Leadership Awards Luncheon on April 30, 2004. April is National Fair Housing Month and the Fair Housing Council is celebrating this important month by honoring individuals and organizations who have taken positive action to affirmatively further fair housing in Orange County.

PRESS RELEASE --FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For further information contact: Elizabeth Albert, Executive Director of the Fair Housing Council of Montgomery County at 215-576-7711

(Montgomery County, Pa., December 16, 2003) -- The Fair Housing Council of Montgomery County is pleased to announce that on December 3, 2003 Lansdale Borough Council amended its housing ordinance to repeal a discriminatory overcrowding ordinance that was in violation of federal and state Fair Housing laws.

The legislative action was initiated by a complaint lodged with the Borough by the Fair Hou