Fair Housing Month Kickoff Event with Cashauna Hill

 

Please join CVOEO's Fair Housing Project for the Fair Housing Month Kickoff event to start off a month full of fair housing education, advocacy, and community building. This event includes a reception with refreshments and a thoughtful presentation from our keynote speaker, Cashauna Hill of the Redress Movement. She will be discussing the the history of housing discrimination in America and tools for mobilization at the local and state levels to create systems that lead to just access to housing. 

 

Cashauna Hill is a graduate of Spelman College and Tulane University’s Law School. She currently works with the Redress Movement after conducting amazing work serving as Executive Director of one of the most active fair housing advocacy groups in the country, the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center (formerly known as the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center). 

 

The team she led at LaFHAC had a holistic approach to ending discriminatory housing policies and practices through litigation, policy advocacy, community-based educational offerings, and other direct services to community members. As an advocate, leader, and litigator with personal connections to the impacts of residential segregation and exclusionary housing policy, her work as Executive Director included leading the community engagement process for the City of New Orleans’ 2016 Assessment of Fair Housing plan – the first in the nation submitted under a 2015 rule requiring state and local governments to identify and address barriers to fair housing choice.

 

 Additionally, her background includes successful resolution of fair housing and lending claims through administrative and court processes. Cashauna has written extensively about housing segregation and civil rights and has testified before the United States Congress as a fair housing expert.