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News Advisory
NCD #02-342
November 5, 2001
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
HUD Representatives to Speak at National Council
on Disability Fair Housing Enforcement News Conference
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/
A. Jo Baylor, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, http://www.hud.gov
Harry L. Carey, Associate General Counsel, Office
of Fair Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
http://www.hud.gov
David Enzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Enforcement
Programs, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development, http://www.hud.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.
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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