Intermountain Fair Housing Council
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Join Us as we celebrate Fair Housing Heroes in Idaho ... December 11, 2025 6 to 8 PM, dinner, drinks, fun, and fair housing! Find tickets and Sponsorship details on our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/e/fair-housi...
September 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Join Us as we celebrate Fair Housing Heroes in Idaho ... December 11, 2025 6 to 8 PM, dinner, drinks, fun, and fair housing! Find tickets and Sponsorship details on our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/e/fair-housi...
Making the case for housing as a human right. Read the full article:
Making the case for housing as a human right
And Housing for All is an impressively comprehensive examination of homelessness in America by Maria Foscarinis, who has worked in homelessness advocacy for decades.
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July 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Making the case for housing as a human right. Read the full article:
Boise City Council oks affordable housing development over some neighbor objections . Read the full article:
Boise oks six story affordable housing development for West Bench - BoiseDev
More than 200 new apartments priced for low-income residents are coming to the West Bench. Last month, the Boise City Council voted unanimously to approve a 212-unit, six-story affordable housing…
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July 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Boise City Council oks affordable housing development over some neighbor objections . Read the full article:
A Trillion-Dollar Impact? How Natural Disaster Risk Could Reshape the U.S. Real Estate Market. Learn more:
A Trillion-Dollar Impact? How Natural Disaster Risk Could Reshape the U.S. Real Estate Market - The MortgagePoint
A new report explores climate-driven population shifts, the rise in homeowners’ insurance, and additional factors impacting the nation’s real estate values—and just how costly those headwinds could…
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July 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A Trillion-Dollar Impact? How Natural Disaster Risk Could Reshape the U.S. Real Estate Market. Learn more:
⚡July is Disability Pride Month!!⚡🙌
July 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
⚡July is Disability Pride Month!!⚡🙌
She didn’t get an apartment because of an AI-generated score and sued to help others avoid the same fate. Keep reading:
She didn’t get an apartment because of an AI-generated score – and sued to help others avoid the same fate
Despite a stellar reference from a landlord of 17 years, Mary Louis was rejected after being screened by firm SafeRent
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July 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
She didn’t get an apartment because of an AI-generated score and sued to help others avoid the same fate. Keep reading:
⚡July is Disability Pride Month!!⚡
July 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
⚡July is Disability Pride Month!!⚡
🏡Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #Illinois
"A sweeping undercover investigation by a housing watchdog group recently filed the largest housing discrimination case in Illinois history against 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms, and landlords." Keep reading:
"A sweeping undercover investigation by a housing watchdog group recently filed the largest housing discrimination case in Illinois history against 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms, and landlords." Keep reading:
Complaint accuses 165 Chicago area brokers of housing discrimination
The Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) submitted 176 complaints against the defendants to the Illinois Department of Human Rights.
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July 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🏡Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #Illinois
"A sweeping undercover investigation by a housing watchdog group recently filed the largest housing discrimination case in Illinois history against 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms, and landlords." Keep reading:
"A sweeping undercover investigation by a housing watchdog group recently filed the largest housing discrimination case in Illinois history against 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms, and landlords." Keep reading:
(1/4)The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
July 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
(1/4)The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #California
"DREDF has filed a lawsuit against 30 providers of rental housing in the City of Los Angeles for alleged source-of-income discrimination. The providers are accused of refusing to rent to a disabled participant of... (Section 8)."
"DREDF has filed a lawsuit against 30 providers of rental housing in the City of Los Angeles for alleged source-of-income discrimination. The providers are accused of refusing to rent to a disabled participant of... (Section 8)."
DREDF Files Lawsuit Against 30 LA Landlords for Discriminating Against Disabled Section 8 Tenant - DREDF
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
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June 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #California
"DREDF has filed a lawsuit against 30 providers of rental housing in the City of Los Angeles for alleged source-of-income discrimination. The providers are accused of refusing to rent to a disabled participant of... (Section 8)."
"DREDF has filed a lawsuit against 30 providers of rental housing in the City of Los Angeles for alleged source-of-income discrimination. The providers are accused of refusing to rent to a disabled participant of... (Section 8)."
What is harassment? 🤔
In Fair Housing, Harassment refers to words or behaviors that threaten, intimidate, or demean a person. Harassment is unwanted, uninvited, and unwelcome and causes nuisance, alarm, or substantial emotional distress without any legitimate purpose. #KnowYourRights
In Fair Housing, Harassment refers to words or behaviors that threaten, intimidate, or demean a person. Harassment is unwanted, uninvited, and unwelcome and causes nuisance, alarm, or substantial emotional distress without any legitimate purpose. #KnowYourRights
June 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What is harassment? 🤔
In Fair Housing, Harassment refers to words or behaviors that threaten, intimidate, or demean a person. Harassment is unwanted, uninvited, and unwelcome and causes nuisance, alarm, or substantial emotional distress without any legitimate purpose. #KnowYourRights
In Fair Housing, Harassment refers to words or behaviors that threaten, intimidate, or demean a person. Harassment is unwanted, uninvited, and unwelcome and causes nuisance, alarm, or substantial emotional distress without any legitimate purpose. #KnowYourRights
Seniors face risk of homelessness amid rising rent. Keep reading:
Seniors face risk of homelessness amid rising rent
Janette Burke-Opheim is packing up her home after her senior living facility raised her monthly fees $200. Now, with weeks left to move out, she's scrambling to find a place she can afford.
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June 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Seniors face risk of homelessness amid rising rent. Keep reading:
📅 Today! 📅 Our Next Fair Housing Basics online training event (with an emphasis on Disability and Familial Status as Protected Classes) will take place this afternoon (June 26, 2025) at 2PM MT. You can still register here: buff.ly/f3IdPal
June 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📅 Today! 📅 Our Next Fair Housing Basics online training event (with an emphasis on Disability and Familial Status as Protected Classes) will take place this afternoon (June 26, 2025) at 2PM MT. You can still register here: buff.ly/f3IdPal
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #Ohio
"A city-led effort has found housing for 154 people experiencing homelessness and closed 47 encampments as part of Cleveland’s “A Home for Every Neighbor” program." WOW! Keep reading: buff.ly/5zzLGIM
"A city-led effort has found housing for 154 people experiencing homelessness and closed 47 encampments as part of Cleveland’s “A Home for Every Neighbor” program." WOW! Keep reading: buff.ly/5zzLGIM
Cleveland initiative to battle homelessness finds housing for 154, closes nearly 50 encampments
A city-led effort has found housing for 154 people experiencing homelessness and closed 15 encampments as part of the Cleveland’s “A Home for Every Neighbor” program.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #Ohio
"A city-led effort has found housing for 154 people experiencing homelessness and closed 47 encampments as part of Cleveland’s “A Home for Every Neighbor” program." WOW! Keep reading: buff.ly/5zzLGIM
"A city-led effort has found housing for 154 people experiencing homelessness and closed 47 encampments as part of Cleveland’s “A Home for Every Neighbor” program." WOW! Keep reading: buff.ly/5zzLGIM
Disability Justice is Housing Justice! #KnowYourRights
June 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Disability Justice is Housing Justice! #KnowYourRights
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 # Massachusetts
A new legal settlement will block specific tenant screening tools, preventing the company from using AI-generated scores when assessing applicants who use housing vouchers. Keep reading:
A new legal settlement will block specific tenant screening tools, preventing the company from using AI-generated scores when assessing applicants who use housing vouchers. Keep reading:
Tenant Screening Company Settles Lawsuit Over Violations of Massachusetts Fair Housing Act - JDP
A tenant screening firm settles for $2.3M over AI scoring biases that discriminated against Black, Hispanic, and housing voucher renters.
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June 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 # Massachusetts
A new legal settlement will block specific tenant screening tools, preventing the company from using AI-generated scores when assessing applicants who use housing vouchers. Keep reading:
A new legal settlement will block specific tenant screening tools, preventing the company from using AI-generated scores when assessing applicants who use housing vouchers. Keep reading:
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #Minnesota
Minneapolis encampments are largely gone. Have homeless people been driven into the shadows? Keep reading: buff.ly/l9kySlP
Minneapolis encampments are largely gone. Have homeless people been driven into the shadows? Keep reading: buff.ly/l9kySlP
Minneapolis encampments are largely gone. Have homeless people been driven into the shadows?
Mayor Jacob Frey says there’s less homelessness, in part, because police have cleared camps. Homeless people say they’re just less visible.
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June 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation 🏡 #Minnesota
Minneapolis encampments are largely gone. Have homeless people been driven into the shadows? Keep reading: buff.ly/l9kySlP
Minneapolis encampments are largely gone. Have homeless people been driven into the shadows? Keep reading: buff.ly/l9kySlP
Many enslaved African Americans in 1865 had heard rumors of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, but without Union enforcement, the Proclamation was merely a promise on a piece of parchment paper.
June 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Many enslaved African Americans in 1865 had heard rumors of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, but without Union enforcement, the Proclamation was merely a promise on a piece of parchment paper.
📅Coming up!📅 There's still time to register for our next Fair Housing Basics online training event (with an emphasis on Disability and Familial Status as Protected Classes) on June 26th, 2025, at 2PM MT. buff.ly/f3IdPal
June 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
📅Coming up!📅 There's still time to register for our next Fair Housing Basics online training event (with an emphasis on Disability and Familial Status as Protected Classes) on June 26th, 2025, at 2PM MT. buff.ly/f3IdPal
What was your first home ownership experience like? For a group of formerly unhoused individuals, it meant moving into brand-new homes with just their personal belongings. Keep reading:
Baltimore tiny home development takes a big swing at homelessness and housing affordability
Hope Village, a new tiny home development turns unhoused into first-time homebuyers.
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June 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What was your first home ownership experience like? For a group of formerly unhoused individuals, it meant moving into brand-new homes with just their personal belongings. Keep reading:
Ninety years ago, a federal agency called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), created “Residential Security” maps of major American cities that guided how mortgage lending risk was to be evaluated at the time.
![“It was the [HOLC], not a private trade association, that pioneered the practice of redlining, selectively granting loans and insisting that any property it insured be covered by a restrictive covenant... forbidding sale of the property to anyone other than whites. Millions of dollars flowed from tax coffers into segregated white neighborhoods.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years In Power](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m3lccyfeikhsgy2zxytos3qr/bafkreig6goc56wkapdxfy334lhpr2kzmhcvmh7yow346uvhi76nqaabcci@jpeg)
June 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ninety years ago, a federal agency called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), created “Residential Security” maps of major American cities that guided how mortgage lending risk was to be evaluated at the time.
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation🏡 #Ohio
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are studying homelessness prevention efforts in Cincinnati. The university’s Lab for Economic Opportunities works with service providers to evaluate poverty interventions. Keep reading:
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are studying homelessness prevention efforts in Cincinnati. The university’s Lab for Economic Opportunities works with service providers to evaluate poverty interventions. Keep reading:
Notre Dame researchers are studying Cincinnati's homelessness prevention efforts
The university’s Lab for Economic Opportunities works with service providers to evaluate poverty interventions.
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June 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🏡 Fair Housing News Around The Nation🏡 #Ohio
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are studying homelessness prevention efforts in Cincinnati. The university’s Lab for Economic Opportunities works with service providers to evaluate poverty interventions. Keep reading:
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are studying homelessness prevention efforts in Cincinnati. The university’s Lab for Economic Opportunities works with service providers to evaluate poverty interventions. Keep reading:
This week in fair housing history: Loving v Virginia (June 12 1967)
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
June 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This week in fair housing history: Loving v Virginia (June 12 1967)
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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