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Insight Summer 2004

Volume XLI No. 2

The Annual Report Issue*

 
A Dream Deferred: BMHA pays family $125,000 to settle disability case
The resolution of the lawsuit brought on behalf of "a 29 year old African American woman who the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority successfully imprisoned in her own home." Also see "In her own words" this issue.
 
41 Years...And Counting
At the 41st Annual Meeting, HOME celebrates victories, presents awards and elects new board members and officers.
 
HOME Receives National Recognition
  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary Carolyn Y. Peoples presents HOME's executive director with HUD's Pioneer of Fair Housing Award.
 
From the Director:  Year of Accomplishments, Accolades & Challenges
In the same year that HOME has seen some of its greatest accomplishments, a significant reduction in funding is putting HOME's ability to deliver core services in jeopardy.
 
Civil Rights Education for the homeless
HOME' s Diocesan Service Corps Volunteer speaks of his year of service working to bring information about housing rights and HOME services to where they are needed most.
 
In her own words
Gwendolyn McIver tells the story of the ordeal experienced by her family when, after her daughter was partially paralyzed by a stroke, she was unable to obtain  a transfer to accessible housing from BMHA..
 
 HOME Board 2003-2004
Brief biographies of the board that governed HOME from 2003- 2004.

 

HOME Welcomes Six Board Members
Brief biographies of HOME's new board members for 2004-2005.
 
2003-2004 Corporate Supporters
Corporations and businesses who generously donated to our 2003-2004 corporate fundraising campaign.
 
2003-2004 Membership Listing
 Our members our are strength!  This is a listing of the nearly 500 people who wish to live in a community free of discrimination. Are you among them?
 
Coming Next Issue: The unfinished business of Brown v. the Board of Education
Linda and Cheryl Brown, who were among the named plaintiffs case discuss 'the myths, the challenges, and the unanticipated challenges" left for us in the wake of this  landmark Supreme Court case.
 
*A complete copy of Insight containing this information can be mailed to you upon request (contact us) or HOME's latest annual report can be obtained from the Office of the Attorney General Charities Bureau 120 Broadway NY, NY 10271.
 

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