Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Fair housing, integrated communities subject of seminar

"Kennedy Heights and Fair Housing in Cincinnati", the latest in the Seminar on the City series will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 PM at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

Dr. James Cebula of Raymond Walters College will discuss the efforts by Kennedy Heights residents to maintain an integrated community.

Also, Erinn Green of Wilmington College and Elizabeth Brown, president of Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME), will talk about fair housing in Cincinnati since 1968 when the U.S. Fair Housing bill was passed and HOME was founded.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Seminar on the City is a collaboration between the Cincinnati Museum Center and the University of Cincinnati Department of History.