Yesterday the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) adopted a new criminal background policy, which goes a long way to expand housing choice and provide safe, decent and affordable housing to the community it serves. The criminal background policy is what HANO uses in order to decide how an individual’s criminal background affects their ability to access […]

On Wednesday, April 17, GNOFHAC staff and board will host a crawfish boil and open house for community members. The theme of the open house will be “Knowledge is Power.” GNOFHAC will host community members and local leaders from nonprofit organizations, the legal and academic communities, and grassroots neighborhood groups in order to engage in open communication about […]

Join us on on Friday, January 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM for the Fit for King Cocktail Reception to support the civil rights work of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. The event will immediately follow GNOFHAC’s 6th annual Fit for King conference and will take place at the Lindy C. Boggs Conference Center at UNO. Come […]

This week, the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) entered into conciliation agreements with two rental-housing companies in the New Orleans area that discriminated on the basis of family status (whether or not there are children under the age of 18 living in a household). Under the conciliation agreements Lexi Properties, LLC and […]

On February 21, Glenneice Davenport, a client of GNOFHAC’s Homeownership Protection Project (HOP), was featured in the Lousiana Weekly. Entitled “Stealing the American Dream of homeownership,” the article focuses on homeowners who were caught in predatory loan situations after Katrina. 2-21-11 Read the article here. Comments are closed.