11/13/24 Free/GRATUITA Fair Housing training on 13 de noviembre de 2024 on Zoom.

🏘️⚖️🖥️ Free/GRATUITA Fair Housing training on November 13, 2024/13 de noviembre de 2024 on Zoom. Register in advance/Regístrese con anticipación: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tk2-PN88QwewKZdThBMZUg#/registration ASL interpretation. 🗣️Este webinario/entrenamiento de capacitacion acerca de justicia en la vivenda tendra interpretes en Español
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Join us in honoring Enterprise Community Partners at our 55th Anniversary

Long Island Housing Services Celebrates turning 55!

Join them in honoring Enterprise Community Partners
at the Long Island’s Savoy Ballroom!

Long Island Housing Services, Inc. (LIHS) is thrilled to announce its 55th Anniversary Gala, taking place on October 9, 2024, at the elegant Savoy Ballroom in the Long Island Hilton. This milestone event will honor Enterprise Community Partners, led by the Senior Vice President Baaba Halm, for their unwavering commitment to fair housing rights in New York State. Together, we can continue to bend the arc of history towards fair housing for all on Long Island. https://lifairhousing.networkforgood.com/events/72665-long-island-housing-services-55th-anniversary-party

Senior Vice President Baaba Halm of Enterprise Community Partners
Senior Vice President Baaba Halm of Enterprise Community Partners

“Enterprise is thrilled to be this year’s Long Island Housing Services 2024 Gala honoree” said Baaba Halm, Senior Vice President of Programs, Enterprise Community Partners. “This honor is a testament to the strong partnership between Enterprise and LIHS and our shared commitment to strengthening fair housing on Long Island and beyond. Through our work together we have strengthened source of income protections, successfully won significant increases in fair housing enforcement dollars, and fought for equitable affordable housing development. I look forward to future collaboration together to make housing more affordable and accessible for those in need.” (more…)

Newsday OpEd: Re-envision schools as enrollment dips

Newsday LogoFrom a Newsday Guest Essay by Ian Wilder, Long Island Housing Services’ Executive Director:

While much of the recent discussion over how to fund our schools has focused on districts where enrollment is declining, some districts are being overburdened by increased enrollment. We should be discussing how to shift resources from underburdened districts to overburdened ones, to better serve students Islandwide and reduce segregation’s continuing effect on students. I come to this topic as a nonprofit administrator with deep experience in budgeting, influenced by my work at the intersection of education and housing and by being raised by a father who was an educator.
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4/26/2023 Fair Housing training

April is Fair Housing Month! Housing Discrimination is Illegal!!

Learn about Your Fair Housing and Tenant’s Rights!!

The Federal Fair Housing Act (New York State and local human rights laws) prohibits housing suppliers from discrimination and that includes COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS.

It is a FAIR HOUSING VIOLATION to be treated differently or unfairly in housing if it is suspected that you have/had Coronavirus.  It is a FAIR HOUSING VIOLATION if someone refuses to rent or evict you because they believe that based on your race, national origin, or disability, you will become ill from the Coronavirus in the future.

Event Description This FREE training will empower ALL individuals, including survivors/victims of domestic violence and homeless individuals to recognize fair housing violations.  This training will also teach you how to document and report allegations of housing discrimination.  This Fair Housing training will cover a brief discussion on sex discrimination (harassment and gender), familial status discrimination, disability discrimination, COVID-19 as it relates to disability discrimination in housing, and other prohibited basis.  The training will also include a brief discussion about Tenants’ Rights. 

April is Fair Housing and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

When:  April 26, 2023 (11:00 am – 12:30 pm)

Where:  Virtual Fair Housing Training via Zoom

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__9VvJZVZSw-GqXT7Ukfung

Long Island Housing Services is a civil rights 501c3 nonprofit focused on fair housing. The Fair Housing enforcement and advocacy work for this training is supported through a grant from the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (American Rescue Plan) of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development.  More information about our agency can be found at www.lifairhousing.org

Questions can be addressed to info@lifairhousing.org or 631-567-5111 ext. 375                                                                                                                           

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/

2022 Long Island Power 100

It’s a Triple Crown, a Hat Trick, a Three….
Third Year in a row!!!

2022 Long Islannd Power 100 (more…)

Redfin Settles Lawsuit with LIHS, FHJC, & other FH Groups

Real Estate Giant to Modify Its Minimum Home Price Policy, Expanding Access to Services in Communities of Color

Today, the Long Island Housing Services, Inc. (LIHS)  and Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) joined the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and seven other fair housing organizations from throughout the country in announcing a settlement with Redfin Corporation, one of the nation’s largest real estate services companies. This settlement agreement will expand opportunities for consumers in communities of color on Long Island and across the nation. (more…)

LTV Video: All-In Affordable Housing with Ian Wilder

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