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 MVFHC awarded 3-year performance-based HUD grant


MVFHC President/CEO Jim McCarthy
receives grant check from
HUD Cincinnati Field Office Director James Cunningham
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced December 12, 2007, that Miami Valley Fair Housing Center (MVFHC) has been awarded a three-year performance-based grant for its work against housing discrimination and helping victims of predatory mortgage loans. At MVFHC's 2007 annual meeting, HUD Cincinnati Field Office Director James Cunningham presented MVFHC President/CEO Jim McCarthy with a check for the first year's installment of the grant.

The grant awarded to MVFHC is one of only thirty-nine multi-year grants awarded to the highest performing of HUD's more than 100 Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) agencies. Multi-year funding allows groups that maintain excellent performance ratings to continue their activities without interruption. Groups not in this category must submit requests for funding each year.

Community Partners
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE)
Citywide Development Corp.
COHHIO
Community Reinvestment Alumni Association
County Corp & County Corp Mortgage
Dayton Area Board of REALTORS®
Dayton Human Relations Council
Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Greater Dayton Apartment Association
HomeOwnership Center of Greater Dayton
Robert E. Kolze Housing Justice Fund
Legal AID of Western Ohio (LAWO)
Miami Valley In-Ovations, Inc.
Montgomery County, Ohio
National Fair Housing Alliance
Ohio Attorney General's Office
Ohio Civil Rights Commission
Sinclair Community College
St. Mary's Development Corporation
Toledo Fair Housing Center
U.S. Department of Housing
& Urban Development (HUD)
Vectren

Public & Private Resource Providers
Coldwell Banker Heritage Realtors
Cox Ohio Publishing
& Dayton Daily News
5/3 Bank
Freddie Mac
Fannie Mae
Huntington National Bank
City of Kettering, OH
Montgomery County
Board of County Commissioners
Montgomery County
Community Development Dept.
Montgomery County
Family & Children First Council
Montgomery County
Recorder — Willis Blackshear
National Association of Realtors (NAR)
Real Living Realty Services
City of Springfield, OH
U.S. Department of Housing
& Urban Development (HUD)
Vectren Foundation
Wright Patt Credit Union
HUD's grant to MVFHC of $275,000 per year for three years, for a total of $825,000, will enable MVFHC to provide complaint intake, investigation and referral for alleged victims of discrimination. MVFHC will conduct

Jim McCarthy, James Cunningham and Elva Lewis and Francis Smith (HUD Columbus office)
testing in the sales, rental and lending markets for evidence of systemic discrimination and will conduct surveys of multifamily developments for compliance with the accessibility requirements of the Fair Housing Act. In addition, a portion of the grant will support MVFHC's Predatory Lending Solutions (PLS) project as well as fair housing education and outreach activities in Montgomery County.

"This grant represents not only an enormous opportunity for the Fair Housing Center, but also stability for the vital programs we operate in the community. We are very pleased that HUD has honored our performance with this performance-based grant," McCarthy said.

"Over the past fifteen years, the Fair Housing Center has undergone significant growth and worked diligently to improve fair housing services in the Miami Valley and has been the lead agency in the region's response to predatory mortgage lending in assisting homeowners facing foreclosure as a result of predatory mortgage lending through the Predatory Lending Solutions project," McCarthy continued.


Diane Thompson (NCLC) with MVFHC staff attorneys Melissa Greenlee and Randy Smith
In other business at the annual meeting, McCarthy acknowledged the attendance of elected officials—Montgomery County Commissioners Judy Dodge and Debbie Lieberman, Dayton City Commissioner Dean Lovelace, Montgomery County Recorder Willis Blackshear and Dayton Public Schools Board Member Stacy Thompson—and thanked MVFHC's many community partners and public and private resource providers.

In addition, Diane Thompson of the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), who was hired by MVFHC to consult on its PLS project, reported on the importance of the work done by the PLS staff and on her recommendations as to how they can have a bigger impact against predatory lending in our community.


James Cunningham with MVFHC board member Beth Deutscher

MVFHC board members Jim Ritterhoff and Clark Beck

MVFHC member Barbara Lotney and MVFHC paralegal Nicole Wilson

MVFHC Vice President of Education John Zimmerman and MVFHC member Noel Vaughn

MVFHC board members Wylie Boddie and Jim Ritterhoff

MVFHC board member Judy Mott and Montgomery County funding liason Matt Dunn

MVFHC members Debborah Wallace and Kiya Patrick and MVFHC board member Matti Seege (center)

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