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Causes: Homeless & Housing
Mission: The housing research & advocacy center promotes fair housing and diverse communities, and works to eliminate housing discrimination in northeast ohio, by providing effective research, education and advocacy.
Programs: The housing center provides enforcement services, including research, for northeast ohio under a number of grants and contracts enforcement services include systemic and complaint-based housing discrimination testing, intake and filing of administrative complaints, and advocacy. The organization provides services to all protected class members in northeast ohio.
the housing center regularly conducts fair housing law trainings for landlords, property managers, real estate agents, and municipal officals. Housing center staff have been invited to participate in number of conferences, forums and panels on various aspects of fair housing and fair lending to ensure housing access for everyone regardless of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability, familial status, religion, sexual orientation, general identity or military status. The housing center facilitates the northeast ohio fair housing collaborative, a partnership of representatives from various agencies and governments who work together to affirmatively further fair housing through educational programs and outreach events. Fair housing materials are available in english, spanish, arabic, urdu and korean.