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The Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh and eleven partner fair housing organizations in six different states announce that a settlement has been reached in a
1258FairHousingProject25 2022-08-15T12:55:28-04:00 fhppgh Feb 18In January 2024, the @hudgov Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity and Shore Hill Apartments, an affordable rental property of 558-units in Brooklyn, New York entered into a Voluntary Compliance Agreement about disproportionately low Black and Latino residents relative to the housing market area.
The property consists of studios and one-bedroom units.
0.54% of Shore Hill Apartments’ households are Black, as per HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Tool.
Comparatively, Brooklyn has a 26.7% Black population, as per the 2020 census.
The Agreement includes Application Screening Policies that applies Individualized Assessments for criminal, credit, and rental histories, including eviction history. Policies include:
Not using arrest records for screening household members.
Denials will specify the exact criminal history, credit, or rental history issue used as the basis for denial and provide a process for requesting reconsideration.
If a third-party screening company used, all tenancy denials will be manually reviewed by an employee before a final eligibility determination is made.
The Fair Housing Act and our civil rights laws are critical for ensuring that our housing units are made available both equally and equitably. #FairHousingEquity
into a Voluntary Compliance Agreement about disproportionately low Black and Latino residents relative to the housing market area. The property consists of studios and one-bedroom units. 0.54% of Shore Hill Apartments’ households are Black, as per HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Tool. Comparatively, Brooklyn has a 26.7% Black population, as per the 2020 census. The Agreement includes Application Screening Policies that applies Individualized Assessments for criminal, credit, and rental histories, including eviction history. Policies include: Not using arrest records for screening household members. Denials will specify the exact criminal history, credit, or rental history issue used as the basis for denial and provide a process for requesting reconsideration. If a third-party screening company used, all tenancy denials will be manually reviewed by an employee before a final eligibility determination is made. The Fair Housing Act and our civil rights laws are critical for ensuring that our housing units are made available both equally and equitably. #FairHousingEquity" />
On August 21, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., alongside several civil rights leaders, were interviewed by a panel of journalists on “Meet the Press.”
Richard Valeriani of NBC News asked Dr. King:
"In regard to your present movement in regard to housing, is it not conceivable to you that a majority of white Americans does not want a Negro for a neighbor, and if that’s so as it was demonstrated in a vote in California, should the majority preference be respected?"
Dr. King replied:
"It’s quite true that there are many people who are against open housing and who are against having Negroes as their neighbor. This does not mean that we don’t go all out to end housing discrimination. It may be true that in the South many white people do not want Negroes to eat at lunch counters, do not want Negroes to have access to hotels and motels and restaurants. But this did not stop the nation from having its conscience so aroused that it brought into being a civil rights law as a result of our movement to end this. Now I think the same thing must happen in housing.
The people have these fears, they have these prejudices and we are only saying that through legislation and a vigorous fair housing bill we will be able to change certain conditions. It doesn’t mean that we will change the hearts of people, but we will change the laws and habits of people, and once their habits are changed pretty soon people will adjust to them just as in the South they’ve adjusted to integrated public accommodations.
I think in the North and all over the country people will adjust to living next door to a Negro once they know that it has to be done, once realtors stop all of the blockbusting and the panic peddling and all of that. When the law makes it clear and its vigorously enforced we will see that people will not only adjust but they will finally come to the point that even their attitudes are changed."
The Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity @hudgov and fair housing organizations nationwide are committed to upholding Dr. King’s commitment to fair housing today and every day.
