Fred Freiberg

Retired Fair Housing Advocate, Co-founder of Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council & Fair Housing Justice Center of NYC (All views expressed are my own)

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Much of the source of income discrimination in NYC is fueled by bias, fears, and stereotypes about households with rental subsidies. Enforce fair housing laws! https://t.co/e57wapE0mo

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

This decision creates change, not just for one individual, but for thousands of renters denied their fair housing rights. We must use the legal process to disrupt systemic housing discrimination & ensure that segregation & exclusion are no longer viable options for landlords.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Big Win for @fairhousingnyc. Federal Court Decision Orders Goldfarb Properties to Pay Nearly $1 Million and End Discriminatory Policies That Exclude Tenants with Rental Subsidies. https://t.co/KV981KXgmV

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Big Win for @fairhousingnyc. Federal Court Decision Orders Goldfarb Properties to Pay Nearly $1 Million and End Discriminatory Policies That Exclude Tenants with Rental Subsidies. https://t.co/KV981KXgmV

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Congrats to The Fortune Society, the Fair Housing Justice Center, and all who contributed to this outcome. The message is clear: a policy that uses past criminal justice involvement to summarily exclude people from affordable housing opportunities is racially discriminatory.

[The Fortune Society @thefortunesoc]

The Fortune Society secures half a million dollars in a court case against iAfford for barring people with criminal justice history from access to affordable housing in NYC: https://t.co/6tuN6VJJPT

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

It is a racially discriminatory policy, plain and simple, for which the City can offer no credible justification. Community preferences must end.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Do New York’s Affordable Housing Lotteries Fuel Segregation? https://t.co/wzKtVCFzaG

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

The community preference policy in NYC does not prevent displacement or stem gentrification, but in many neighborhoods, it does limit the housing choices available to people based on race and national origin and reinforces existing patterns of residential racial segregation.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

@HousingWi Incomparable legacy, indeed! Congratulations to my dear friend and colleague of more than 45 years.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

@TheNormanLear Norman, from your many friends at the Fair Housing Justice Center in New York City, best wishes on your 100th birthday!

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Very exciting news that @eliseboddie will become #2 in the Civil Rights Division. DOJ and the nation will benefit tremendously from your leadership, experience, and vision. Make lots of good trouble!

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

There's nothing private about commercial speech that housing providers use to offer housing for rent or sale. It is precisely because too many agents still refuse to provide the same information to consumers of all races that this speech should not be kept private or protected.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Why do we protect the privacy rights of fair housing violators in eleven states while failing to protect entire populations who routinely face mistreatment, steering, and denial of housing opportunities based on race? https://t.co/MBvXhIMbB2

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

@VPNiX0N Congratulations!!!

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

12,000-Unit Bronx Housing Complex Must Accept Housing Vouchers, Judge Rules  https://t.co/LF9rT6c5kE via @DavidFBrand

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

In granting a preliminary injunction to a homeless woman with two children who was denied an apartment in the Bronx by the Parkchester Preservation Company due to alleged source of income discrimination, a NY judge issued an 11-page order citing the "brutality of homelessness."

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

@FSCDems The FHA is 54 years old, but it has never been fully implemented, adequately resourced, or vigorously enforced. Persistent systemic housing discrimination and residential racial segregation is the norm and, for too many people, the promise of equal housing is largely illusive.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

Fairness demands that we protect justice-involved populations from housing discrimination. Why can't NYC get this done? Similar laws passed in Seattle, Detroit, New Jersey, and other parts of our nation. It's long overdue. NY needs leadership on this vital fair housing issue.

[FHJC @fairhousingnyc]

"We will never eliminate race discrimination in housing if we fail to protect people who have conviction records from discrimination caused by background checks." Read FHJC Policy coordinator Britny McKenzie's powerful new piece in City Limits. https://t.co/YH9ztymdBv

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

@feenoirenyc Marie, I will also miss working with you. You have made so many contributions to the FHJC since our inception and I'm so fortunate that I was able to work closely with you over the past couple years. Thanks and all the best in your future endeavors.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

"Part of our problem is that we have never totally enforced the Fair Housing Act" - HUD Sec. Fudge. While it is refreshing to hear this nugget of wisdom coming from the HUD Secretary, may I respectfully suggest that we fix this problem by vigorously enforcing fair housing laws.

[Fred Freiberg @FredFreiberg]

HUD secretary: Bad enforcement of Fair Housing Act to blame for Black homeownership decline https://t.co/isL79HkBm5