Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI)

Eviction is a growing problem in Indiana that needs to be addressed, even more so in Indianapolis. From July 2022 to October 2023, the number of evictions happening monthly in Marion County was consistently around 1,000. https://bit.ly/40lKPXT

When Marine Corps veteran and HVAF client Dion Donnell moved to Indianapolis with his four children, he found out the same subsidies meant to help people find homes can actually hurt their chances at being accepted as a tenant. “It’s almost like you’re begging them. ‘Please, take me in. I have a voucher.’ They don’t want to take the risk.” https://lnkd.in/g776CDcd

In his new book, The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth, George Lipsitz argues that residential racial segregation is both an economic injustice and a public health hazard. It contends that housing insecurity and its health consequences make up key components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order. These dire racist injustices are effects of practices that might appear initially to be race neutral, such as decisions about zoning, construction of municipal and school district boundaries, artificially low home value appraisals coupled with artificially high tax assessments, insurance company algorithms, misdemeanor arrests and municipal fines, fees, and debts, flaws in legal and medical education, anti-drug laws, environmental pollution, and uninterrogated social science methods. https://lnkd.in/gYHYv-Xi

Millions of people across the U.S. live in places that are falling into disrepair, even becoming uninhabitable, making a massive shortage of affordable housing worse. They are disproportionately lower-income and Black or Hispanic, and many are seniors on fixed incomes. But a patchwork of repair programs — federal, state, local and nonprofit — are largely underfunded, with years-long waitlists. It’s a crisis that threatens people’s health and lives, yet can be invisible from the outside. https://lnkd.in/gqFdQcWp

#HappyHalloween and do we have a TREAT for you! Our #FairHousing virtual training series continues in November with more sessions for you to take advantage of: 🟥 Fair Housing Basics: Thursday November 7, 10am-12pm ET 🟦 Fair Housing Disability: Tuesday November 19, 10am-12pm ET 🟧 FH90: Accessing Housing Data: Thursday November 21, 2-3:30pm ET *Exciting announcement*** Our "Hot Topic" has been selected for the 11/21 FH90 - we will be diving into #housing #data with demonstrations of 3 different data dashboards that advocates can use to help share their mission and augment their storytelling! Learn what data is out there for you to use, how to access it, and how data can be used to enhance your storytelling to inform change in your community. All of these trainings are FREE and virtual, but advanced registration is required: www.fhcci.org/events Thanks to Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA), Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for making these trainings possible.

We welcome to the FHCCI new board member, Patricia Basile. The FHCCI board is critical to the work of the FHCCI. To learn more about the FHCCI board, go to: https://lnkd.in/gRRsTfGB Welcome, Patricia!

“I have the best view in Carmel. I love my apartment. It’s my safe place. And they just literally, mentally, ruined it for me,” she said. “They” refers to The Connor Group, which purchased the 322-unit property at 675 Beacon St. from NTS Development in late 2023. Since then, Shane and other tenants said rents have risen, fees have jumped dramatically, upkeep and maintenance have declined, and the sense of community has been nearly destroyed. https://lnkd.in/gB-cHzsp

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office issued a new report about redlining this week. Mortgage lenders in New Jersey need to take note and make sure they are properly monitoring and mitigating redlining risk. Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) issued a report outlining the findings of a multi-year investigation into allegations of unlawful mortgage redlining and discrimination by Republic First Bank. The investigation – initiated by DCR and the Division of Law (DOL) – found that Republic First Bank, doing business as Republic, engaged in a pattern and practice of redlining Black, Hispanic, and Asian communities in New Jersey in violation of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD). Link 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e8CmWXeN #redlining

The raid comes months after HUD barred Millennia from receiving any new federal contracts with the department for five years. The move followed a HUD inspector general investigation that found $4.9 million in missing or misappropriated money from 19 Millennia properties that were insured or subsidized by HUD. Millennia has at least four affordable housing properties in Indianapolis: Barrington Village at 1504 Renton St.; Emerson Place Apartments at 2110 Emerson Knoll Place; Hubbard Gardens at 4004 Meadows Drive; and Stonegate at 1226 N. Illinois St. https://lnkd.in/gT364EwV

Our #Unwelcomed exhibit is continuing its adventures up in Fort Wayne, IN! Thanks to our partners at the The Multicultural Center at Purdue University Fort Wayne, this exhibit documenting the historical sales and lending discrimination that has led to our segregated neighborhoods is in the Walb Student Union. Everyone is welcome to check it out during their normal operating hours OR better yet, attend the official launch event on November 4th and get some delicious snacks! You can learn more about that event here: https://lnkd.in/gS-W6mMb