Record 48% increase supports local community education and enforcement efforts
WASHINGTON, DC – March 1, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $40.8 million to 108 fair housing organizations and non-profit agencies in 36 states and the District of Columbia to educate the public and combat housing and lending discrimination (see attached list of grantees). This year’s award represents a $13.2 million increase over last year’s award and includes $10 million to fund activities that address lending discrimination, including mortgage rescue scams.
“The record increase in support to local fair housing and community organizations demonstrates the Obama Administration’s firm commitment to ending housing discrimination and providing help to families victimized by mortgage scams,” stated HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.
“Ending housing discrimination takes more than the efforts of Washington,” said John Trasvin?a, HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity. “These grants enable community groups all over the nation to help HUD enforce the Fair Housing Act, make the public more aware of their fair housing rights and ensure that housing providers understand their responsibilities under the law.”
The grants announced today are funded through HUD’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP)and will be used to investigate allegations of housing discrimination, educate the public and the housing industry about their rights and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act, and work to promote equal housing opportunities.
The categories grants were awarded in include:
- Private Enforcement Initiative grants (PEI)– HUD awarded $28 million to support organization that investigate alleged housing discrimination, and enforce the Fair Housing Act and state and local laws that are substantially equivalent to the Act. Groups will also use the funding to conduct testing to protect individuals living in minority neighborhoods from mortgage rescue scams.
- Education and Outreach Initiative grants (EOI)– HUD awarded $6.8 million to organizations that educate the public and housing providers about their rights and obligations under federal, state, and local fair housing laws. Groups will also conduct fair lending workshops, community meetings, and individual counseling activities focused on homeowners at risk for discrimination.
- Fair Housing Organizations Initiative grants (FHOI) – HUD awarded $6 million to organizations serving rural and immigrant populations in areas lacking existing fair housing organizations, or otherwise underserved. Included will be activities that provide direct assistance to victims of fraudulent or predatory mortgage rescue schemes.
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HUD’s mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination; and transform the way HUD does business. More information about HUD and its programs is available on the Internet at www.hud.gov and espanol.hud.gov.
Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) Grants
Fiscal Year 2010
|
State |
Recipient |
Grant Type |
Amount |
|
|
AL |
Central Alabama Fair Housing Center |
PEI |
$274,000 |
|
|
Fair Housing Center of Northern Alabama |
PEI |
$275,000 |
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|
Mobile Fair Housing Center, Inc. |
EOI |
$118,734 |
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|
PEI |
$275,000 |
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|
AZ |
Arizona Fair Housing Center |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
Southwest Fair Housing Council |
EOI |
$124,786 |
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|
PEI |
$274,309 |
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|
PEI |
$323,689 |
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|
CA |
Bay Area Legal Aid |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. |
PEI |
$275,000 |
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|
PEI |
$250,000 |
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|
Fair Housing Council of Central California |
PEI |
$293,580 |
||
|
Fair Housing of Marin |
PEI |
$324,997 |
||
|
Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance, Inc. (GBLA) |
FHOI |
$441,743 |
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|
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates |
FHOI |
$145,210 |
||
|
Inland Mediation Board |
FHOI |
$726,993 |
||
|
PEI |
$325,000 |
|||
|
Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. |
EOI |
$115,500 |
||
|
Orange County Fair Housing Council, Inc. |
PEI |
$304,000 |
||
|
Project Sentinel, Inc. |
PEI |
$273,788 |
||
|
San Francisco Consumer Action |
EOI |
$1,000,000 |
||
|
Southern California Housing Rights Center |
PEI |
$324,938 |
||
|
The Fair Housing Council of Riverside County, Inc. |
PEI |
$397,403 |
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|
CT |
Connecticut Fair Housing Center, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
|
|
PEI |
$325,000 |
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|
DC |
Equal Rights Center |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
Housing Counseling Services |
EOI |
$125,000 |
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|
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law |
FHOI |
$499,992 |
||
|
National Community Reinvestment Coalition |
EOI |
$232,707 |
||
|
FHOI |
$486,601 |
|||
|
PEI |
$500,000 |
|||
|
PEI |
$315,256 |
|||
|
National Fair Housing Alliance |
EOI |
$1,000,000 |
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|
EOI |
$767,293 |
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|
FHOI |
$994,211 |
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|
PEI |
$498,640 |
|||
|
DE |
Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. |
PEI |
$297,657 |
|
|
FL |
Affordable Housing Centers of America |
EOI |
$79,819 |
|
|
Bay Area Legal Services, Inc. |
PEI |
$278,914 |
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|
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. |
PEI |
$300,000 |
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|
PEI |
$325,000 |
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|
Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches, Inc. |
PEI |
$311,694 |
||
|
Fair Housing Continuum, Inc. |
PEI |
$315,000 |
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|
Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
PEI |
$325,000 |
|||
|
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. |
EOI |
$124,743 |
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|
PEI |
$274,752 |
|||
|
PEI |
$499,970 |
|||
|
Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
Mid-Florida Housing Partnership, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
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|
GA |
Metro Fair Housing Services, Inc. |
PEI |
$275,000 |
|
|
HI |
Legal Aid Society of Hawaii |
PEI |
$275,000 |
|
|
ID |
Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc. |
EOI |
$103,699 |
|
|
Intermountain Fair Housing Council, Inc. |
PEI |
$324,839 |
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|
IL |
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. |
PEI |
$325,000 |
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|
HOPE Fair Housing Center |
PEI |
$274,491 |
||
|
Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs |
PEI |
$235,687 |
||
|
John Marshall Law School |
PEI |
$274,958 |
||
|
Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
SER Jobs for Progress, Inc |
PEI |
$140,369 |
||
|
South Suburban Housing Center |
PEI |
$273,505 |
||
|
PEI |
$150,000 |
|||
|
The John Marshall Law School |
EOI |
$99,980 |
||
|
EOI |
$124,994 |
|||
|
KS |
Urban League of Kansas Inc. |
FHOI |
$273,007 |
|
|
KY |
Lexington Fair Housing Council, Inc. |
PEI |
$260,477 |
|
|
LA |
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
|
|
PEI |
$325,000 |
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|
MA |
Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston |
PEI |
$274,750 |
|
|
PEI |
$500,000 |
|||
|
HAP, Inc. |
EOI |
$121,637 |
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|
Housing Discrimination Project |
PEI |
$325,000 |
||
|
Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts |
PEI |
$237,933 |
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|
ME |
Pine Tree Legal Assistance |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
MI |
Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan |
PEI |
$183,549 |
|
|
PEI |
$302,766 |
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|
Fair Housing Center of West Michigan |
PEI |
$274,604 |
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|
Fair Housing of Metropolitan Detroit |
PEI |
$180,740 |
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|
LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MICHIGAN |
PEI |
$259,384 |
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|
MN |
Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
PEI |
$356,365 |
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|
Minneapolis Urban League |
EOI |
$124,447 |
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|
MO |
Metropolitan St.Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council |
PEI |
$272,614 |
|
|
Missouri Commission on Human Rights |
EOI |
$124,917 |
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|
MS |
Fair Housing Center of the Gulf Coast Region of Mississippi |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
MT |
City of Billings |
EOI |
$125,000 |
|
|
Montana Fair Housing, Inc. |
PEI |
$176,652 |
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|
NE |
Family Housing Advisory Services, Inc. |
PEI |
$275,000 |
|
|
High Plains Community Development Corp., Inc. |
EOI |
$120,570 |
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|
NH |
New Hampshire Legal Assistance |
PEI |
$324,972 |
|
|
NJ |
Fair Housing Council of Northern New Jersey |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
NV |
Silver State Fair Housing Council |
PEI |
$268,606 |
|
|
NY |
AAFE Community Development Fund, Inc. |
EOI |
$100,000 |
|
|
Fair Housing Council of Central New York, Inc. |
PEI |
$323,870 |
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|
FAIR HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER, INC. |
PEI |
$324,991 |
||
|
Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc. |
PEI |
$263,846 |
||
|
Legal Assistance of Western NY, Inc. |
PEI |
$277,000 |
||
|
Legal Services NYC Staten Island |
PEI |
$471,932 |
||
|
Long Island Housing Services |
PEI |
$275,000 |
||
|
Neighborhood Econ. Dev. Advocacy Project |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
EOI |
$22,376 |
|||
|
Queens Legal Services Corporation |
FHOI |
$498,753 |
||
|
South Brooklyn Legal Services, Inc. |
FHOI |
$427,587 |
||
|
PEI |
$325,000 |
|||
|
Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc. |
PEI |
$110,656 |
||
|
OH |
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. |
FHOI |
$499,999 |
|
|
Fair Housing Contact Services |
PEI |
$275,000 |
||
|
Fair Housing Opportunities dba Fair Housing Center |
PEI |
$275,000 |
||
|
Fair Housing Opportunities Inc. dba Fair Housing Center |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
Fair Housing Resource Center, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
PEI |
$275,000 |
|||
|
Housing Advocates, Inc. |
PEI |
$275,000 |
||
|
Housing Opportunities Made equal of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. |
EOI |
$124,025 |
||
|
PEI |
$324,359 |
|||
|
Housing Research & Advocacy Center |
PEI |
$325,000 |
||
|
Miami Valley Fair Housing Center, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
PEI |
$500,000 |
|||
|
OK |
Metropolitan Fair Housing Council of Oklahoma, Inc. |
PEI |
$324,808 |
|
|
OR |
Fair Housing Council of Oregon |
PEI |
$325,000 |
|
|
PA |
Fair Housing Council of Suburban Philadelphia, Inc. |
PEI |
$274,818 |
|
|
Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh |
FHOI |
$98,563 |
||
|
PEI |
$275,000 |
|||
|
Fair Housing Rights Center of Southeastern Pennsylvania |
PEI |
$275,000 |
||
|
Southwestern Pennsylvania Legal Services, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
PEI |
$325,000 |
|||
|
St. Martin Center, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
||
|
SC |
Charleston Trident Urban League, Inc. |
EOI |
$125,000 |
|
|
TN |
Tennessee Fair Housing Council, Inc. |
PEI |
$275,000 |
|
|
West Tennessee Legal Services, Inc. |
FHOI |
$957,166 |
||
|
PEI |
$275,000 |
|||
|
TX |
Austin Tenants Council Inc |
PEI |
$324,723 |
|
|
Greater Houston Fair Housing Center, Inc |
PEI |
$325,000 |
||
|
San Antonio Fair Housing Council, Inc. |
PEI |
$275,000 |
||
|
VA |
Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc. |
PEI |
$149,404 |
|
|
VT |
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity |
EOI |
$125,000 |
|
|
Vermont Legal Aid, Inc. |
PEI |
$325,000 |
||
|
WA |
Fair Housing Center of Washington |
PEI |
$275,000 |
|
|
Northwest Fair Housing Alliance |
PEI |
$325,000 |
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|
WI |
Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, Inc. |
EOI |
$124,773 |
|
|
PEI |
$274,921 |
Contact:
Shanate Goodloe
(202) 708-0685
