Fair Housing Projects

CLA’s core housing work includes helping tenants to fight back against illegal housing discrimination. Community Legal Aid’s Fair Housing Project helps clients with a variety of fair housing issues, including racial harassment, refusal to rent due to family status, refusal to remove lead paint, and discrimination based on disability. In addition to litigation, the Fair Housing Project conducts educational workshops on fair housing laws for tenant groups, social service providers, landlords, and other community members. The Project also trains civil rights investigators to “test” whether housing providers are unlawfully discriminating against tenants and applicants for housing.