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Policy

The Fair Housing & Community Development Project is consistently engaged with national fair housing and consumer protection coalitions, members of the Obama Administration and Congressional staff in advocating for several fair housing, fair lending, and...

Wynwood

In January 2001, the Lawyers’ Committee filed a motion to enforce a 1995 settlement between the Wynwood Community Economic Development Corporation and the City of Miami, Florida, on behalf of Wynwood in the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida...

Port Wentworth

On October 22, 2003, the Lawyers’ Committee, Fletcher Farrington and the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro filed a complaint against the City of Port Wentworth, Georgia, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia on behalf of several individual...

Port of Gulfport Expansion

On December 10, 2008, the Lawyers’ Committee, the Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) and the law firm of Mintz,  Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the U.S. District...

St. Bernard Parish

On November 2, 2006, the attorneys for the Lawyers’ Committee, the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) and the law firm of Relman & Dane filed a complaint against St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...