Anthony Keck, President
Cynthia Collins, Vice-President
Sheila Matute, Treasurer
Scott Day
Ramona Fernandez
Lucinda Flowers
Monique Harden
Bay Love
Andre Perry
Nathan Shroyer
Clayton Williams
Gary Williams

Our Mission

The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) is a private, non-profit civil rights organization established in the summer of 1995 to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area. Through education, investigation, and enforcement activities, GNOFHAC promotes fair competition throughout the housing marketplace -- rental, sales, lending, and insurance. GNOFHAC is dedicated to fighting housing discrimination not only because it is illegal, but also because it is a divisive force that perpetuates poverty, segregation, ignorance, fear, and hatred.

Our History

The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center was established in the summer of 1995 to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area. Since its inception, GNOFHAC has built an impressive record of advocating for the fair housing rights of New Orleans consumers. GNOFHAC has filed over 20 lawsuits in state and federal court and assisted complainants in filing over 120 administrative complaints. GNOFHAC has thus far assisted in the recovery of over $1,200,000 in monetary relief as a result of its enforcement actions and has negotiated numerous consent decrees requiring housing providers to comply with fair housing laws, attend educational seminars, market their properties to protected classes, and engage in other activities to ensure that housing opportunities are provided on an equal basis.

GNOFHAC has expanded the expertise and willingness of the private bar to assist victims of housing discrimination. GNOFHAC has conducted training for more than 100 attorney participants to handle fair housing cases for victims of housing discrimination, and provides regular updates through its attorney round table discussions. In addition, GNOFHAC has developed cooperative relationships with other area nonprofit legal service organizations to build their capacity to identify and challenge violations of fair housing laws.

GNOFHAC quickly developed a reputation in the community as an effective source of fair housing assistance and information. It receives and processes over one hundred cases a year, which is only a fraction of the hundreds of calls GNOFHAC receives requesting technical assistance on fair housing issues. GNOFHAC serves all protected classes and investigates all forms of housing discrimination. Trained by national experts, it is able to conduct sophisticated testing and investigation in the fields of rental, sales, lending, insurance, and public accommodations. It investigates systemic as well as complaint-based allegations of housing discrimination and works with a variety of community and advocacy groups.

GNOFHAC has also expanded the community's ability to eliminate housing discrimination and enhanced the ability of other organizations and entities to serve their clients. GNOFHAC has worked with a variety of community groups to ensure that their members can identify and respond to fair housing violations. GNOFHAC provides over 30 first time homebuyer trainings per year, reaching over a thousand consumers, and regularly conducts additional fair housing trainings and workshops for hundreds of other consumers and industry members each year.

 

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