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In Lansing, residents are taking reparations into their own hands. The Justice League of Greater Lansing is focused on the repairing the racial wealth gap in the area.
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A state House subcommittee held a hearing Thursday on bills to establish new housing protections, including what supporters are calling a “homeless bill of rights.”
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The city of Howell has agreed to pay a $750,000 settlement that ends a long-running lawsuit over a sober living home. The city was sued after it put a temporary ban on those facilities in response to an outcry over plans to open the Amber Reinick House.
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Three bills are currently in the Michigan Senate to bar landlords from discriminating against potential tenants based on where they get the money for rent.
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Under Floyd J. McCree, Flint became the first city to ban housing discrimination that prevented African-Americans from buying homes in “whites only” neighborhoods.
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Home mortgage rates are up in Detroit — but Black people are still being denied for mortgages at higher rates than white people, according to a new report from the nonprofit Detroit Future City.
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Verdell and Julie Franklin had visited their friends on Zukey Lake in Hamburg Township many times over the last ten years, and when a house on the same…
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One assumption among those who study housing discrimination has been that it’s more likely to occur in wealthier, whiter enclaves.That was the hypothesis…
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The legacy of discrimination against people of color and discrimination against certain religions is powerfully present in Michigan cities to this day.A…