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About FHRC
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The Fair Housing Rights Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania (FHRC) was originally organized in 1990 and was established in 1992 to address the problem of housing discrimination in Montgomery County. FHRC was founded by Dr. Mari K. Fielder, a professor and mother who realized the need for fair housing advocacy for women with children, and Marlene Craven, a disability rights advocate.
In May of 2007, FHRC changed its name from the Fair Housing Council of Montgomery County to the Fair Housing Rights Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania to reflect its geographic reach more accurately.
Today, FHRC serves Southeastern and parts of Central Pennsylvania by providing fair housing services in Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Perry, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, and York counties.
We are committed to bringing fair housing education to families, professionals, housing providers, jurisdictions, and other stakeholders across our service area. Our focus is not only on assisting qualified individuals to obtain housing, but also on helping them identify and report unlawful housing practices. These infringements span from minor to large institutional practices that cause lasting, devastating community effects. Discriminatory housing practices do not always immediately reveal the extent to which they interfere with the basic need for housing as well as human and civil rights.
FHRC ensures equal access to housing opportunities for occupants, home seekers, housing providers, and homeowners.
FHRC also aims to preserve and protect community investments that promote housing, health, wealth, and well-being. FHRC educates the public and professionals on fair housing and lending laws to enhance and enrich the public. Provides investigative and enforcement services to individuals who have experienced housing discrimination in the areas of rental, sales, lending, insurance, and appraisals. Collaborates with the government to enhance the public's understanding and awareness of fair housing policies. Audit real estate and related industry practices; advocate for sustaining good or amending harmful housing policies. FHRC contracts with housing providers and private industry to improve compliance with fair housing and lending laws.
FHRC monitors the community for compliance with applicable housing laws and contracts with private businesses to conduct fair housing or fair lending investigations. Additionally, FHRC provides housing education, services, information, and referrals. FHRC operates as a trauma-informed service provider.
To foster practices that result in housing opportunities and optimal biopsychosocial conditions.
Dismantle open and hidden remnants of redlining, including harsh structural and institutional systems and people-driven biases that impact public policies and social practices in housing, related industries, and intersect with community and quality of life. Also, advocate when government and private actors impede optimal living conditions.
FHRC's core values are reflected in our brand that is synonymous with civil and human rights, as well as educating the public and enforcing fair housing laws through:
FHRC has the fortitude to lead the region's protected classes, housing providers, architects, builders, contractors, developers, engineers, planners, community-based organizations, elected officials, municipal workers, and stakeholders to understand their rights and obligations under federal, state, and local fair housing and related housing laws.
FHRC tries not to forget that knowing esoteric legal information means nothing if the organization is unable to effectively market and communicate with the public, advocate on behalf of victims, and ensure that violators are forced to implement corrective actions, which reverse unethical and/or unlawful discriminatory housing policies and practices.
FHRC identifies viable businesses that match our mission to work with so that consumers may benefit from additional practitioners that support civil rights and the well-being of protected classes.
FHRC partners with private, non-profit, and government agencies to effectuate HUD's mission and priorities by increasing sustainability, capacity building and knowledge sharing, and using housing as a platform for improving other social conditions and outcomes.
FHRC works on behalf of vulnerable and marginalized victims who rely on our expertise to become whole.
FHRC is committed to improving biopsychosocial factors that affect housing, including wealth, health, and educational achievement.
FHRC assists the public through advocacy, education and outreach, referral, linkage, testing, housing counseling, and a variety of legal services that support victims of unlawful housing discrimination.
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