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ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No.
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: April 1, 1996
SUBJECT: Proclamation Of Fair Housing Month In Orange County
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DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes zz No
Human Relations Commission BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes No
Housing and Community Development
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ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
• Proclamation Lucy Lewis, ext. 2250
Tara Fikes, ext. 2490
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough- 732 -8181
Chapel Hill- 967-9251
Mebane -227-2031
Durham- 688-7331
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PURPOSE: To adopt a proclamation officially recognizing April 1996 as Fair Housing
Month in Orange County.
BACKGROUND: April has been designated nationwide as Fair Housing Month to bring
awareness to the protections provided under the Federal Fair Housing Act.
The Orange County Human Relations Commission enforces the Orange County Civil
Rights Ordinance, which prohibits and addresses discriminatory housing practices.
Further,the Orange County Housing and Community Development Department, as a
recipient of Community Development funds and as a participant in other HUD funded
programs, is required to inform the public of Federal and State fair housing protections.
Therefore, in recognition of Fair Housing Month,these two county agencies present the
following proclamation. The HRC staff will also present information regarding housing
discrimination at the Orange Community Housing Corporation seminar for first-time
home buyers on April 10th. [The Housing and Community Development staff has
completed a preliminary assessment of"Impediments to Fair Housing"that exist in
Orange County. The next step in the process is the development of an Action Plan to
address the identified fair housing issues.]
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the
proclamation and authorize the Chair to sign
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PROCLAMATION
FAIR HOUSING MONTH
WHEREAS, April, 1996 marks the twenty-eighth anniversary of Title VIII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1968, the Federal Fair Housing Act, which
provided for equal opportunity for all Americans in the sale, rental
and financing of housing and prohibited housing discrimination on
the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age or national origin; and
WHEREAS, the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 added familial status and
handicap to those classes protected by Title VII and added strong
new rights, remedies, monetary penalties and judicial and
administrative enforcement procedures; and
WHEREAS, numerous studies have shown that housing discrimination is as
pervasive, if not more so, than in 1968, and far more insidious than
ever before; and
WHEREAS, illegal barriers to equal opportunity in housing that diminish the
rights of some of our citizens, diminish the rights of all;
NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Commissioners of Orange County, proclaim the
month of April, 1996, as FAIR HOUSING MONTH and commend this observance
to all Orange County citizens.
This the 1 st day of April, 1996.
Moses Carey, Jr., Chair
Board of Commissioners