Advocacy

How HOPE helps:

HOPE Fair Housing Center:

• continues as a powerful voice for fair housing which is heard locally, regionally and across the nation, including helping America understand that racial segregation is one of the defining moral issues of our time.
• creates educational programs on fair housing issues that are viewed by more people than those of all the other local fair housing centers in the country combined
• promotes a philosophy and programs which are rooted in the civil rights movement
• challenges our region to better understand our Nation's need for diverse and integrated schools which can only be achieved through diverse and integrated neighborhoods
• responds effectively and efficiently to fair housing complaints to insure proper enforcement out results
• continues to identify cutting edge fair housing issues and to develop enforcement strategies for addressing them
• implements systemic investigations to uncover and prevent steering and red-lining
• identifies and addresses immigration issues that relate to fair housing
• targets organizations with which to build new alliances and a strong base of support to promote fair housing
• promotes racial and economic integration, including greater integrated housing options for persons with disabilities
• develops strong working relationships with municipalities by working with code enforcement officials to educate and protect residents
• works collaboratively to prevent and remedy housing discrimination and to expand civil rights protections where possible to those who are economically disadvantaged
• works to incorporate Housing Choice Vouchers as part of the protected class under the Fair Housing Act.
• expands efforts to expose and take aggressive action against those municipalities and housing providers who by policy or practice, discriminate against and unlawfully target Latino, new immigrant populations and families with children