Bringing Gender Home is GNOFHAC’s comprehensive, multi-faceted initiative designed to meet the unique needs of individuals who have experienced gender-based housing discrimination.  The initiative deals with such issues as sexual harassment in housing, wrongful loss of housing as a consequence of domestic violence, and discrimination based on gender identity and/or sexual orientation.

Bringing Gender Home is an organization-wide initiative and features close collaborations among GNOFHAC’s Outreach, Policy, Enforcement, and Homeownership Protection Departments.   The latest project undertaken as part of the Bringing Gender Home initiative is Spirit House, an original, multimedia performance piece that examines housing issues through a gendered lens.  Through the Bringing Gender Home Initiative, GNOFHAC hopes to better understand the needs of individuals and families experiencing discrimination in order to best fulfill its mission of eliminating housing discrimination in the greater New Orleans area and the state of Louisiana.

Spirit House: The purpose of the Spirit House project is to use community based research and theater in order to explore the impact of exclusionary housing policy and practices on women and families, and the intersections between sex, gender, race, class and sexual orientation in experiences of finding housing and defining “home.” Learn more about the Spirit House Project here.

UPCOMING PUBLIC TRAININGS

• Fair Housing Accessibility Training: April 5
  
  
    On Friday, April 5th, GNOFHAC will hold a FREE daylong training on housing accessibility requirements based on HUD's Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST Initiative.  HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement Sara Pratt will use Fair Housing Acce...

• Fair Housing 101 for the Management Team
  
  
  This half-day workshop for apartment complex management and maintenance staff will provide a comprehensive review of a housing provider’s responsibilities under fair housing law. Topics covered will include protected classes and transactions, reasonable m...
• Fair Housing Review for Lending Institutions
  
  
  A half-day training tailored to employees of banks and other lending institutions.  Participants will review the basics of the Fair Housing Act with examples and best practices from the lending industry.  Covered topics include protected classes and trans...
• Mortgage Default 101
  
  
  Our fair housing specialists and HUD-certified housing counselors will train your foreclosure and collections staff in various techniques and best practices for handling mortgage default situations in ways that are compliant with the Fair Housing Act. ...
• Fair Housing 101 for Service Providers
  
  
  This customizable training is tailored to service providers and case managers who work with people with disabilities, people with HIV/AIDS, recovering alcoholics and substance abusers, and homeless individuals.  The training will cover basic protections u...
• Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 101
  
  
  This customizable training focus on the requirement of certain federally funded entities to “Affirmatively Further Fair Housing” (AFFH).  Covered topics include an overview of rights and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act, fair housing design and...
• The Fair Housing Five & the Haunted House
  
  
  The Fair Housing Action Center offers a variety of workshops for schools and youth-serving organizations that teach students about civil rights and equity. Visit www.fairhousingfive.org to read about FHAC’s children’s book and educational programming fo...