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Fair Housing Advocates describe testing wins; staff selects FANCY for $43,000 CDBG award amid staffing constraints
Summary
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California outlined enforcement and testing work in Vallejo; city staff announced it will designate FANCY as a Community Development Block Grant subrecipient for $43,000 this year without an RFP because of limited staffing, and commissioners discussed notifying prior applicants and providing training.
Julia Howard Gibbon, legal director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California (FANCY), presented the organization’s enforcement and outreach work to the Housing and Community Development Commission and described recent testing and case results in Vallejo.
"The majority of our clients here are low income — 91% are low income or below," Howard Gibbon said during the presentation, summarizing client demographics and the group’s services, which include individual counseling, reasonable-accommodation advocacy and systemic testing. She said FANCY had served more than 800 households and almost 2,000 individuals across the agency’s Vallejo work and that in recent years it assisted roughly 100–111 households per year.
Howard Gibbon summarized two recent case…
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