The federal Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) was signed by  Congress in April of 1968, just days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Each year in April  the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and fair housing organizations across the country commemorate the signing of the Fair Housing Act with educational activities to highlight the state of fair housing.


Fair Housing Month Event 2009:
Improving the Quality of Life in Napa's Neighborhoods; Practical Strategies for Preventing Neighborhood Blight in the Face of Foreclosure - Workshop on April 24, 2009.
Attendees split into 6 working groups composed of fire, law enforcement and code enforcement personnel, elected officials, realtors, attorneys, members of the City of Napa S.M.A.R.T. team, and presenters discussing strategies for working together to prevent neighborhood blight arising from foreclosures.

Fair Housing Month Event 2008:
Bernie Kleina, Executive Director of HOPE Fair Housing Center, Wheaton Illinois
commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the signing of the Federal Fair Housing
Act in April 1968, four days after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. The framed
photograph of Dr. King shown next here was part of Bernie’s Photography Exhibit
of The Chicago Freedom Movement of the 1960’s.

Bernie Kleina

 
                            Pastor Deana Reed                             


Supervisor Brad Wagenknecht

Fair Housing Month Event 2007:
Fair Housing in a Nation of Immigrants
A program presented by Liza Cristol-Deman,
Esq. Ms. Cristol-Deman is an attorney with the
firm of Brancart & Brancart, Pescadero, California

Liza Cristol-Deman

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