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Insight Winter 2004 |
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Volume XLI No. 4 |
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Roadblocks to
Opportunity: HOME Completes Fair Housing Study |
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At the request
of the City of Buffalo, HOME analyzes the barriers that prevent residents
from obtaining and maintaining the housing of their choice. The study
finds that although the city could be in a position to become a powerful
proponent of fair housing, it has not yet adhered to or amended its stated
fair housing policy. |
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What's the Color of
Your Voice? |
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Fair housing
advocates have long suspected that landlords screen prospective tenants
without ever meeting them based on the "color" of their voice. Now,
scientific research on "linguistic profiling" has produced verifiable
evidence to prove these suspicions are true. |
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Please Leave a Message After the Tone |
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HOME assists a
three-time victim of linguistic profiling to obtain justice. |
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From the Director: The Hits just Keep on Coming |
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In the
aftermath of the retaliatory funding cut from the City of Buffalo, HOME
learns that, despite two Best Practices and a Pioneer of Fair Housing
Award, the agency's Federal funding will not be renewed . |
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What We Can Become |
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An invitation
to view HOME's Civil Rights exhibit and join HOME at CEPA Gallery for a
night to remember. |
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The Joanne Champion Granger Scholarship Award |
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HOME announces
that scholarship applications are being accepted from high school seniors
in Erie and Niagara County to recognize academic achievement and
commitment to civil rights. |
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