HOUSING ADVOCACY

 

Having housing laws in place that protect our rights is a great start, but we'd like to see everyone have a strong appreciation of diversity and human rights in housing. As part of our ongoing work, LSNF is a tireless advocate for fair housing in courts, meetings with elected officials, corporate board rooms, and the media.

 

Ultimately, these goals include:

 

· Eliminating discriminatory housing preferences,

· Creating maximum accessibility in affordable housing for people with disabilities,

· Assisting cities and developers to create inclusive affirmative marketing plans,

· Adopting non-discriminatory housing preferences policies,

· Building more than the required 5% accessible housing units,

· Marketing new housing units aggressively to racial and ethnic minorities,

· Increasing the number of reasonable accommodation agreements between landlords and persons with disabilities, and,

· Assisting homeowners to rid their deeds of illegal restrictive covenants.