10 2025 assaults on civil rights we need to fortify against

Fortify Civil Rights for the Next Four Years —Your Action Needed Now

As we approach the end of 2024, the fight for fair housing faces unprecedented challenges. With only a few hundred dollars raised toward our $8,000 goal, we urgently need your support to equip Long Island Housing Services with the tools necessary to defend civil rights over the next four years.

Proposed policy changes threaten to dismantle critical protections, potentially reversing decades of progress in civil rights.

Proposed Threats to Fair Housing:

The incoming administration has signaled intentions to roll back key civil rights protections, including:
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10/9/2024 Gala Save the Date

On October 9, 2024 at 6pm, Long Island Housing Services, Inc. will hold its 55th Anniversary Gala at Long Island Hilton’s Savoy Ballroom, 598 Broadhollow Rd, Melville, NY 11747. More information, including sponsorships and early bird tickets, to follow.

Please come party with us to celebrate bending the arc of history toward justice for the last 55 years. DJ Steezo is back from when he helped us dance the night away two years ago. The Savoy Ballroom was built for clubbing. And, of course, Ian insisted we end the night with another ice cream bar.

Limited Sponsorships available now: https://lifairhousing.networkforgood.com/events/72665-long-island-housing-services-55th-anniversary-party 
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Fair Housing Tester Training

Provisional Employment: Fair Housing Testers

CALL: 631-567-5111, ext. 375 TODAY!!
Email: info@LIFairHousing.org
Email Your Resume today

Long Island Housing Services, the not-for-profit, Civil Rights, Fair Housing agency serving Nassau and Suffolk is currently seeking conscientious people.

Testers are considered part-time, provisional employees.

Long Island Housing Services’ testers pose as ordinary persons seeking housing to observe the business practices of a housing provider in order to determine compliance with fair housing laws.

If hired for provisional employment, LIHS will pay Testers $24.00 hourly salary plus some mileage expenses.

Qualifications:
• Must attend a Fair Housing Tester training session
• Must be reliable
• Must have reliable transportation
• Willing to work in Nassau & Suffolk
• Ability to write a report and properly follow instructions
• Honesty and objectivity

Long Island Housing Services needs conscientious people for ongoing projects. Participate in something worthwhile; support Fair Housing.

Long Island Housing Service, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/

20 Ways to Fight Housing Discrimination

Wilder, Ian (2022) “20 Ways to Fight Housing Discrimination,” Touro Law Review: Vol. 38: No. 2, Article 7, 2022. Full article can be downloaded from https://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol38/iss2/7/

When looking at the continuing size of the problem of discrimination it is easy to be paralyzed into inaction by the sweeping scope of the undertaking. (more…)

Hiring Fair Housing Investigator!

The Fair Housing Investigator will be responsible for assisting in developing and implementing Long Island Housing Services’ fair housing enforcement activities in conjunction with other Fair Housing Program staff.  Experience in writing, interviewing, advocacy, investigations, public speaking, training and supervision is required.  Salary $53,000 plus benefits. Bilingual skills are desirable.  (more…)

Viral video on disability discrimination

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