by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 24, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge withdrew a Trump-era rule that would allow federally funded single-sex shelters to discriminate against tenants based on gender identity. Proposed last July, the rule would have rolled back...
by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 23, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington D.C.) — The city of Norfolk and the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NRHA) are perpetuating residential racial segregation by implementing their unlawful redevelopment plan for public housing in the St. Paul’s Quadrant, according to...
by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 22, 2021 | Press Releases
Civil rights groups, civic organizations, and tribal and local governments have secured and presented to the court for approval a final resolution in the federal lawsuit that stopped the federal government from severely truncating and skewing the results of the 2020...
by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 21, 2021 | Blog
Every April we celebrate National Fair Housing Month and the passage of the Fair Housing Act, a robust civil rights act enacted in 1968 that prohibits discrimination in the access of housing. On the surface, fair housing could simply mean accessibility to quality...
by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 20, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — Eight people were shot and killed at an Indianapolis FedEx facility last week by a former employee. Four of the eight victims belonged to the Sikh religious community. The attack in Indiana’s state capital, also the third largest city in the...
