Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston

Before the FHCGB’s founding in 1998 by local civil rights and housing advocates and attorneys, Boston was the only major metropolitan region in the country without an organization specifically focusing on housing discrimination. A 1998 challenge grant from the Boston Foundation’s Community Benefit Fund, along with the matching funds it generated, provided critical start-up support for the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston.

The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston is the only private, non-profit organization solely focused on ending illegal housing discrimination in the greater Boston area. The Fair Housing Center challenges illegal discrimination through education and outreach, enforcement, public policy advocacy, and research. Smart growth is an important piece of the Center’s work because housing discrimination has resulted in segregation and concentrations of poverty. Smart growth policies support equitable and fair housing in all locations.

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