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News Advisory
NCD #02-340
November 2, 2001
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
National Council on Disability to Critique HUD's
Enforcement of Fair Housing
The National Council on Disability (NCD) will conduct
a news conference to highlight the release of its report on the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) fair housing
enforcement on November 6, 2001, at 10:00 a.m., in the First Amendment
Room, National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington,
DC.
The report evaluates HUD's enforcement of the Fair
Housing Amendments Act of 1988 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act as they relate to housing for people with disabilities and HUD's
overall record during the past 12 years in enforcing the civil rights
of people with disabilities under these laws.
Participants include:
Marca Bristo, Chairperson, NCD, 312-253-7000, http://www.ncd.gov/
Dave N. Brown, Member, NCD, and Housing Report Team
Leader, 360-586-4024, http://www.ncd.gov/
Michael Allen, Senior Staff Attorney and Director
of Housing Programs, Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health
Law, 202-467-5730, http://www.bazelon.org/
Ophelia B. Basgal, Commissioner, Millennial Housing
Commission, 510-538-8513, http://www.mhc.gov/
Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights, 202-466-3311, http://www.civilrights.org/
Dan Kessler, Board of Directors, National Council
on Independent Living, 205-252-5403, http://www.ncil.org/
Milton J. Little, Jr., Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer, National Urban League, 212-558-5310, http://www.nul.org/
Kathleen H. McGinley, Ph.D., Co-chair, Housing Task
Force, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, 202-785-3388,
http://www.c-c-d.org/tf-housing.htm
Becca Vaughn, Topeka Independent Living Resource Center
Housing Activist/Disability Rights Action Coalition for Housing
Coordinator, 785-233-4572, http://www.tilrc.org/
For more information, contact Mark S. Quigley at 202-272-2004
or 202-272-2008.
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Notes: Embargoed copies of Reconstructing Fair Housing
will be available at the National Council on Disability beginning
at noon on Friday, November 2. The report is embargoed until November
6, 2001, at 10:00 a.m. NCD is located at 1331 F Street, NW, Suite
850, Washington, DC.
The National Council on Disability (NCD) is an independent
federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress
on disability policy. NCD first proposed and then drafted the original
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Currently, NCD is coordinating
a multi-year study on the implementation and enforcement of ADA,
the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, and other civil rights laws.
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