[Durham INC] Durham Launches Fair Housing Survey

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

For Details, Contact:

Amy Blalock

Sr. Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 11253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at durhamnc.gov

 

For Immediate Release:  October 29, 2010

 

Durham Launches Fair Housing Survey 

Survey Seeks to Gather Resident Knowledge of Fair Housing Laws 

 

DURHAM, N.C. - In an effort to assess resident knowledge of fair housing laws, the City of Durham's Human Relations Department wants to hear from you. 

 

Now hosted on the department's webpage, the confidential 28-question online survey is designed to assess how much residents know about their fair housing rights. According to Yvonne Pena, director of the City's Human Relations Department, resident input is extremely important for the department and how it plans to move forward with its outreach efforts. "The answers we receive are going to help us assess our training and educational outreach needs," Pena said. "It's crucial that we assess how much our residents know about fair housing so we can, in turn, fine tune our outreach efforts to be as effective as possible."

 

According to Peña, the department administers the City's Fair Housing Ordinance and is responsible for enforcement of the City and Federal Fair Housing Laws; processing alleged cases of housing discrimination; and conducting education and training on fair housing issues. "The City's Fair Housing Ordinance is equivalent to federal civil rights law and our staff investigates alleged discrimination in race, religion, color, sex, national origin, familial status, and handicap," Pena said. "By doing this, it enables our department to contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and as a result, receive funding for processing housing complaints and conducting education and outreach. That's why the survey is so important to us being able to effectively conduct educational outreach." 

 

The survey is currently accessible from the department's webpage at www.DurhamNC.gov/departments/relations and will be available until June 2011. For additional information about fair housing rights, residents should contact Delilah Donaldson, manager with the City's Human Relations Department, at (919) 560-4107, ext. 24246 or via e-mail at Delilah.Donaldson at DurhamNC.gov. 

 

About the Department of Human Relations

The City of Durham's Department of Human Relations strives to improve race and human relations in the City by working to eliminate discrimination in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations; and by prioritizing community outreach and educational activities to meet the needs of Durham's citizens. To learn more, visit www.DurhamNC.gov/departments/relations. 

 

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