April is Fair Housing Month! Here at LaFHAC, we fight discrimination and segregation and work to makes sure families have access to safe and affordable housing in neighborhoods of opportunity.  LaFHAC can assist with foreclosure prevention, provide legal services for those who have experienced housing discrimination, provide eviction defense, and educate community members about their […]

Earlier this month the National Low Income Housing Coalition released a report on the availability of affordable rental units in each state and 50 major metropolitan areas across the county.  The report, entitled “The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes,” found that not a single state has an adequate supply of rental housing that […]

Homelessness is a very real problem in the United States.  It is estimated that over 550,000 people are experiencing homelessness at any given time (National Alliance to End Homelessness), and this number does not even include those staying with family members or friends, who may not consider themselves homeless, but have no place else to […]

Thursday, January 28th was the third and final day of LaFHAC’s annual fair housing summit, Fit for a King.  This year’s event, Discrimination is Deadly, was the first-ever virtual summit and wrapped up with not one, but two keynote speakers. The session began with a keynote address from Carroll Fife, founding member of Moms4Housing and […]

Thursday, January 21st was day two of LaFHAC’s annual fair housing summit, Fit for a King.  This year’s event, Discrimination is Deadly, was the first-ever virtual summit. The session began with a panel entitled “Targeted: Policing, Gentrification, and Housing Injustice.” Participants got to hear from Chancela Al-Mansour of the Housing Rights Center, Professor Bennett Capers […]

On Thursday, January 14th, LaFHAC live-streamed day one of its annual fair housing summit, Fit for a King. This year’s event, titled “Discrimination is Deadly,” took place over three weeks in January and was LaFHAC’s first-ever virtual summit.  The day began with a panel entitled “From Red Lines to the Frontlines: COVID Collides with Environmental […]

LaFHAC’s Executive Director, Cashauna Hill, wrote an article for the January/February 2021 issue of Probate & Property, the magazine published by the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust and Estates Law section.  An excerpt from “Evictions and the COVID-19 Pandemic” by Cashauna Hill:   “Since mid-March 2020 it seems every day that we have been faced with more crises than […]

On December 20th, Congress passed a bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill that included an initial one-month extension to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s eviction moratorium, $25 billion to assist landlords and renters, boosted unemployment assistance, and another round of smaller stimulus checks. The previous original eviction moratorium was set to expire on December 31st and would have left 34 […]

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is extending the foreclosure and eviction moratorium for single family FHA-insured mortgages through February 28, 2021. Single family borrowers with FHA-insured mortgages can request an initial COVID-19 forbearance from their mortgage servicer to defer or reduce their mortgage payments for up to six months (with the option to extended for an additional six months after that). The […]

On July 8, 2020, the City of Gretna, Louisiana adopted a moratorium on the construction of multifamily housing that may violate the Fair Housing Act. This moratorium came shortly after discussions with developers about plans to create a mixed-use development that would include 141 units of affordable and market rate rental housing on the site […]