housing discrimination

The Michigan Senate sent the rest of the bills in a tenants’ rights package to the governor’s desk last night. Colin Jackson has more.

Bills to forbid landlords from refusing to lease apartments to people based on their source of income are on their way to Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The Michigan held final votes on the bills Thursday. Rick Pluta has more.

In the year 2024, right here in Washtenaw County, there are still racially restrictive covenants written into thousands of property deeds. These property deeds are dedicated to preventing people of color for buying or renting homes. Exposing and combatting these provisions is the mission of the group Justice InDeed. WEMU's David Fair spoke with Justice InDeed co-leads Justin Schell and Jessica Letaw about the effort to eradicate these covenants and fight segregation and economic inequality.

Landlords could not discriminate against tenants or prospective tenants who use housing vouchers or some other type of public assistance to pay the rent under bills adopted early today by the Legislature. Rick Pluta reports.

It could become illegal in Michigan to deny renting to someone because of their source of income. That's under a bill package heading for the full state House of Representatives. Colin Jackson has more.

Though the residents of the West Willow neighborhood in Ypsilanti Township are predominantly people of color, a document affecting about 196 homes on a parcel in the neighborhood is still on the books that bans anyone who isn't white from living there. In an effort to change that, the New West Willow Neighborhood Association (NWWNA) has partnered with the Justice InDeed project at the University of Michigan Law School's Civil Rights Litigation Initiative to repeal the race-restrictive covenant covering that plat of land. Concentrate Media’s Rylee Barnsdale discusses the work being done to repeal this document with NWWNA president JoAnn McCollum.

A Michigan House subcommittee held a hearing Thursday on bills to establish new housing protections, including what supporters are calling a “homeless bill of rights.” We have more from Rick Pluta.

More than a thousand people have added their voices to concerns about housing conditions in Washtenaw County. WEMU’s Cathy Shafran has more on the latest fair housing survey that was just completed.

A state lawmaker from Ann Arbor has called for adding a new protection for people seeking housing in Michigan. He says people should not be denied a house…

The Federal Fair Housing Act banned housing discrimination in 1968, but fair housing laws are not self-enforcing. The Fair Housing Center of Southeast and…