On Friday, April 15, 2016, the City of Raleigh Fair Housing Hearing Board and the Fair Housing Project of Legal Aid of North Carolina will sponsor the 13th Annual Fair Housing Conference. The keynote speaker at the conference will be civil rights attorney John Relman, one of the nation’s foremost fair housing and civil rights attorneys and the managing partner of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Relman, Dane & Colfax.
Panels will address issues of fair housing and gentrification as well as housing discrimination against immigrant and Limited English Proficiency tenants.
The conference will take place at the McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education, located at 1101 Gorman St, Raleigh, NC 27606.
Early registration will begin on February 29, 2016.
This conference is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program.
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About the Fair Housing Project
Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Fair Housing Project works to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for all people in North Carolina through education, outreach, public policy initiatives, advocacy and enforcement. Learn more at fairhousingnc.org.