Categories: Guest Post
Following is a guest post by Jo Becker, Education/Outreach Specialist for the Fair Housing Council of Oregon. The topic of fair housing testing strikes fear and incites anger in many within the housing industry—independent landlords and professional property managers, sales brokers, mortgage lenders, homeowners’ associations, and other housing providers. Most are very unclear what testing […]
What the REALTOR® needs to know about fair housing issues, as told by a former REALTOR®!
Categories: Events, Homeownership
What can you do to help end discrimination and the fair housing movement through your work with clients? Here’s a round-up of resources for reflection and sharing.
The Fair Housing Council of Oregon will share stories and case laws to illustrate what not to do; advise REALTORS® on advertising, and encourage attendees to become fair housing advocates in their business.
Categories: Events
Fair Housing Month commemorates the anniversary of the Fair Housing Act in 1968—find out how the Fair Housing Council of Oregon is planning to celebrate!
Categories: Guest Post
How much do landlords know about lead poisoning? Results from a survey conducted by the Fair Housing Council of Oregon.
Categories: Guest Post
How can iguanas, “hellos,” and food stamps put you at risk? You have likely been to fair housing programs or have read articles that dealt with the important topics of race, color, disability, children, national origin, sex, and religion… But these topics, albeit extremely important, are not the only ones out there.
Categories: Guest Post
While anyone can be poisoned by lead, children under the age of six are particularly vulnerable. Children are at risk both because they are more likely to ingest lead in housing situations and because lead can adversely affect children’s brains, central nervous system, and other organs and systems that are still developing. The Consumer Product […]
Categories: Guest Post
In 2008, FHCO launched a tour of Portland’s hidden history of discrimination. The 2.5-hour coach bus trip explores a multitude of the Northwest’s “equity skeletons” hiding in our communal closet, some of which pre-date the Fair Housing Act (FHA)1. Others are recent enough you may remember hearing of in the news.
Categories: Guest Post
Guest Post Provided By Jo Becker, Education/Outreach Specialist, Fair Housing Council of Oregon Last month, we posted a poem provided by the Fair Housing Council of Oregon that described fair housing topics using the letters of the alphabet. The poem was broken up into two parts. Here is the second (and final) installment to the poem, […]