Parma Hts. Hosts Landlord/Tenant Fair Housing Seminar
The City of Parma Heights and the Housing Research & Advocacy Center will present a Fair Housing and Landlord Tenant Law Seminar on Thursday, September 27, 2012, from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at Parma Heights City Hall,6281 Pearl Road.
Parma Heights has a long, proud history of supporting fair housing, and seminars such as this one help to ensure that will always be the case in our town.
Angela Shuckahosee, Executive Director of the Cleveland Tenants Organization will give a presentation on Landlord Tenant Law and Darlene English, Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Housing Research and Advocacy Center, will lead a presentation on Fair Housing laws. A question and answer period will follow the two presentations. Funding for the seminar is provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The event is free but space is limited and registration is required by contacting The Housing Center at 216 361-9240 or by email to denglish@thehousingcenter.org. One Fair Housing CEU is available for licensed real estate agents. Light refreshments will be served.
The mission of Cleveland Tenants Organization is to preserve and expand the supply of safe, decent, fair, affordable and accessible rental housing in Greater Cleveland and the Housing & Advocacy Center is a non-profit fair housing agency located in the City of Cleveland that promotes fair housing and works to eliminate housing discrimination in Northeast Ohio by providing effective research, education, and advocacy.
PARMA HEIGHTS SUPPORTS FAIR HOUSING
The City of Parma Heights is a community historically open and accessible to any and all persons without exception or exclusion. Our first Fair Housing Resolution was adopted in 1968 and in 1996, the city adopted a Fair Housing Ordinance which strengthened the original resolution.
The Fair Housing Ordinance provides for Fair Housing throughout the city, assuring that all persons have full and equal opportunity to consider all available housing for themselves and their families within the city without being discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, handicap, familial status, national origin or military status and to promote a stable racially integrated community.
The Fair Housing Ordinance also established a Fair Housing Review Board to mediate any complaints of discriminatory housing practices.
Any resident or prospective resident of Parma Heights who feels they are being discriminated against for any of the seven protected categories of race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, handicap, familial status, national origin or military status or need further information, are asked to contact Community & Economic Development Director Joseph E. Sebes at 440 884-9600 x32.