Top 3 Things You Should Know About Fair Housing
1. The Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968 as a way to quell the riots that broke out in 125 cities after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. The […]
Disparate Impact: A Key Tool We Must Preserve
On our bus tours of historical housing discrimination, segregation, and displacement, we introduce our work by telling riders that housing discrimination no longer looks like it did more than 51 […]
We Must Understand Our Shared History
As long as people have worked to find places to live throughout history, there also have been systems designed to separate us. In this country, indigenous peoples were forcibly displaced […]
Hannah Callaghan’s Parting Words
What are your most memorable moments at FHCO? I remember my first HUD monitoring visit in 2013 when Nicole and I worked non-stop trying to organize all four enforcement grants […]
More Than Numbers Tell the Story of Our Work
It’s been another great year of accomplishments by the amazing staff and board at the Fair Housing Council of Oregon, but our story goes beyond just the one the numbers […]
Our Favorite Acronym: AFFH
One thing you’ll notice when you delve into the housing world is we love our acronyms, and there’s one in particular that we are particularly fond of in the fair […]