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NEW ONLINE COURSES MAKE FAIR HOUSING LAW MORE ACCESSIBLE
Posted on December 19, 2022

In an effort to make fair housing law more accessible to community members who may not otherwise have access, The Fair Housing Center recently launched three new online courses, which are free and available to the public. All you need is an email address and an internet connection in order to enroll in a course. Once you are enrolled in a course, you can start learning from anywhere and complete the course at your own pace. Read our latest blog to learn more about our available courses.
Enroll in an Online Fair Housing Course
Fair Housing for the LGBTQ+ Community
Know Your Rights: Criminal Records & Fair Housing Law
What Every Landlord Should Know: Criminal Records & Fair Housing
A Look Back at 2021: Read our Annual Report
Throughout 2021, our communities experienced many ups and downs. Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the availability of vaccines brought relief to some and allowed a slow return to normalcy. The news of expanded protections for LGBTQ+ Americans and the revival of two important fair housing rules at the federal level encouraged fair housing advocates near and far. Still, for many others, the pandemic’s impact on health, jobs, and housing continued to weigh heavily. The lingering effects of the pandemic, as well as the end of the CDC Eviction Moratorium in late 2021, left many families struggling to pay rent and at risk of losing their housing. Through all of the ups and downs of the year, the Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research continued to offer fair housing assistance and support to those who needed it most.

Read our annual report to learn more about the impact we made in 2021.
ICYMI: Get to Know The Fair Housing Center
If you missed our "Get to Know The Fair Housing Center" event in November, we've got you covered. Watch the full recording of the conversation to learn more about our agency, the issues we work to address, how we make an impact, and how you can help us to create a more equitable future.
Staff Spotlights
ALEK NIELSEN, ENFORCEMENT INTERN
Alek is a native of Greater Cleveland, with a Bachelor’s in History from Ohio State University. Alek’s career background is mainly in scientific research, coming to the housing justice world through non-professional activist work. Since 2019, Alek has been a part of electoral and tenant organizing efforts in Columbus and helped to administer and organize Cleveland’s largest anti-eviction outreach campaign to date (the Cleveland Housing Organizing Project). He believes in the importance of serious and honest advocacy and service delivery, while pushing for democratic organizing beyond the nonprofit world to build the power to genuinely transform the unacceptable conditions tenants and advocates face in Cleveland. Ultimately, he looks forward to a world where housing is a human right, rather than a private commodity or an asset for investors. As an enforcement intern, he has the opportunity to help the broader Enforcement Team in defending tenants’ disability rights, combatting racial discrimination, and more!
ADELA DUEWEL, HOUSING JUSTICE INTERN
Adela was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to Cleveland in 2019 to attend Case Western Reserve University where she is now a senior double majoring in history and international studies. She is double minoring in Spanish and social work. Having learned about the world’s injustices in her academic work, she is passionate about advocating against them. As housing justice intern, she is responsible for assisting the Education and Outreach Department with fair housing education and outreach activities. In her spare time, Adela enjoys being active and outdoors.
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About Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research

The Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research (The Fair Housing Center) is a nonprofit fair housing organization whose mission is to protect and expand fair housing rights, eliminate housing discrimination, and promote integrated communities. The Fair Housing Center has been in existence for 35 years, beginning as the Metropolitan Strategy Group in 1983.
 
The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibits discrimination in the sale or rental of a dwelling on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability. The purpose of the law is to eliminate housing discrimination and promote residential integration.
 
For more information visit www.thehousingcenter.org.