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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 04-05-1993 - IV-A 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No.ZV.I. ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 5, 1993 SUBJECT: Proclamation - Fair Housing Month DEPARTMENT: Human Relations Comm. PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: x ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Lucy Lewis, Proclamation Extension 2251 TELEPHONE NUMBER- Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: To adopt a proclamation officially recognizing April 1993 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 seeks to eliminate bias and discrimination in various areas including housing. Further, the Orange County Housing and Community Development as a recipient of Community Development funds and 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 agencies along with the Chapel Hill Department of Housing and Community Development and the Carrboro Planning Department are sponsoring a "Fair Housing and Lending Laws Forum" targeted to professionals in the real estate and financial community on Wednesday, April 21, 1993 at the Homestead Community Center from 1:00 to 3:00pm. RECOMMENDATION(S) : The Manager recommends that the Board of Commissioners approve the proclamation and authorize the Chair to sign. 2 PROCLAMATION WHEREAS April, 1993 marks the twenty-fifth 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 VIII 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, be it resolved that the Orange County Board of Commissioners proclaim the month of April, 1993 as FAIR HOUSING MONTH commend this observance and related activities to all Orange County citizens. Moses Carey, Jr., Chair [[ ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 1 V--.4 P.O. Box 8181 HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. 27278 Moses Carey,Jr. 732-8181 Alice M. Gordon 968-4501 Stephen H. Halkiotis 688-7331 Verla C. Insko 227-2031 Don Willhoit 644-3004 (Fax) PROCLAMATION FAIR HOUSING MONTH WHEREAS, April, 1993 marks the twenty-fifth 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 VIII and added strong new rights, remedies, monetary penalties and judicial and administrative enforcement [ procedures; and I WHEREAS, numerous studies have shown that housing discrimination L is as pervasive, if not more so, than in 1968, and far 1 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, be it resolved that the Orange County Board of Commissioners proclaim the month of April, 1993 as FAIR HOUSING MONTH and commend this observance and related activities to all Orange County citizens. I Moses Carey, Jr. , Chair Board of Commissioners YOU COUNT IN ORANGE COUNTY ! %it ['