Community Organizations
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
Contact info
Hannah Adams
504-596-2100
404 S. Jefferson Davis Pkwy
New Orleans, LA 70119
Website: http://www.gnofairhousing.org/
Services Offered
Planning District:
1
Ward:
4
Zip Codes:
70119
Boundaries:
Greater New Orleans, statewide
Police Precinct:
8
President / Director:
James Perry
Mission:
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) is a private, non-profit civil rights organization established in the summer of 1995 to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area. Through education, investigation, and enforcement activities, GNOFHAC promotes fair competition throughout the housing marketplace — rental, sales, lending, and insurance. GNOFHAC is dedicated to fighting housing discrimination not only because it is illegal, but also because it is a divisive force that perpetuates poverty, segregation, ignorance, fear, and hatred.
See www.gnofairhousing.org for more information on your housing rights.
Current Priorities:
- Housing
For More Info:
Phone: 504-596-2100
http://www.gnofairhousing.org
January 15th 2010
RED LINES & KEEP OUT SIGNS - A Conference on Barriers to Open Housing: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Friday, January 15, 2010
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Lindy Boggs International Conference Center UNO – 2045 Lakeshore Drive
FREE – Registration required – Register at http://www.fitforaking.org
From historic redlining to contemporary NIMBYism, this free training will look at barriers to open housing: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Stakeholders will gain tools for understanding and combatting discriminatory housing policy and exclusionary housing practices in their communities.
YESTERDAY: Keynote speaker Beryl Satter, author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, will discuss how redlining, contract sales, and other racially discriminatory real estate practices in Chicago established stark segregation in housing. A local historian will connect Satter’s presentation to the history of housing segregation in New Orleans.
TODAY: The training will also feature a panel of local stakeholders who will discuss how Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) attitudes function currently to prevent our city’s full recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
TOMORROW: Finally, participants will spend the afternoon in break-out workshops designed to provide a variety of stakeholders with the tools they need to create healthy and inclusive communities.
Visit http://www.fitforaking.org for more information and registration.
January 7th 2010
RED LINES & KEEP OUT SIGNS Conference Filling Up Fast!
Register now for our free conference RED LINES & KEEP OUT SIGNS: A CONFERENCE ON BARRIERS TO OPEN HOUSING, YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW
Friday, January 15th, 2010
9 AM – 4 PM
Lindy Boggs International Conference Center – UNO – 2045 Lakeshore Dr.
FREE – REGISTRATION REQUIRED – REGISTER @ http://www.fitforaking.org
From historic redlining to contemporary NIMBYism, this free conference will look at barriers to open housing: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Stakeholders will gain tools for understanding and combatting discriminatory housing policy and exclusionary housing practices in their communities.
Download the full agenda at http://www.gnofairhousing.org/pdfs/FFK10Agenda.pdf or visit http://www.fitforaking.org
YESTERDAY: Keynote speaker Beryl Satter, author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, will discuss how redlining, contract sales, and other racially discriminatory real estate practices in Chicago established stark segregation in housing. A local historian will connect Satter’s presentation to the history of housing segregation in New Orleans.
TODAY: The training will also feature a panel of local stakeholders who will discuss how Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) attitudes function currently to prevent our city’s full recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
TOMORROW: Finally, participants will spend the afternoon in break-out workshops designed to provide a variety of stakeholders with the tools they need to create healthy and inclusive communities.
REGISTER NOW @ http://www.fitforaking.org
December 1st 2009
GNOFHAC Urges Jefferson Parish Housing Authority to Reopen Section 8 Waiting List
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) denounces the process by which the Jefferson Parish Housing Authority (JPHA) recently opened its Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP, or “Section 8”) waiting list. A notice posted on the JPHA website on November 23rd, 2009 invites Jefferson Parish residents to fill out a “pre-application” form online, or request the form by mail between November 23rd and November 30th, 2009. The online form was removed at the close of business on November 30th, and JPHA’s notice stated that mailed requests received after November 30th or hand-delivered “will not be processed.” GNOFHAC is disappointed that JPHA chose to open its waiting list for the first time in years over the Thanksgiving holiday, a week when Jefferson Parish residents have limited access to social service and advocacy agencies, as well as post offices and public facilities that offer internet access. Furthermore, GNOFHAC is concerned that JPHA advertised the opportunity to apply for its HCVP waiting list exclusively via its website, and the legal notices section of the Times-Picayune.
The outreach that the JPHA engaged in to advertise the opening of the waitlist is insufficient in volume, and does not adequately address the needs of people with disabilities. GNOFHAC urges JPHA to reopen the pre-application process with an extended deadline, and to conduct TV and radio advertising to give the public adequate notice that the waiting list is open. Due to the obscurity of its advertising and the lack of access to resources over a national holiday, GNOFHAC recommends that JPHA extend its deadline for at least 30 days. This extension coupled with more comprehensive advertising will give Jefferson Parish residents adequate opportunity to complete the pre-application process, and will give social service agencies adequate time to reach out to their low-income clients.
GNOFHAC Interim Co-Director Kate Scott remarks, “It is unacceptable that JPHA chose to open its Housing Choice Voucher waiting list in a manner that likely bars access for many individuals most in need of housing vouchers. We urge JPHA to amend its process so as to offer equal opportunity to all Jefferson Parish residents.”
Contact: Seth Weingart
(504) 596-2100
More info at http://www.gnofairhousing.org/news.html
NPN is funded with help from CPSC
