Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE)

Education and outreach initiative program is designed to ensure that the general public and protected classes under federal, state and local fair Housing laws become knowledgeable concerning their rights and the means available to seek redress for fair Housing violations. The initiative also includes private Housing industry provider education programs structured to furnish developers, real estate brokers, property managers, financial institutions, and the media/ advertising industry with the most current information necessary to fully comply with fair Housing laws. Assistance is provided to local jurisdictions in meeting their mandated responsibility to affirmatively further fair Housing. Fair Housing counseling, as well as information and referral services, are provided to south Florida residents seeking Housing Opportunities in the private Housing market.

Community Housing assessability program - this program promotes the investment into neighborhoods that have been hard hit by the foreclosure crisis and support homeownership, neighborhood stabilization, property rehabilitation and Housing development.

The private enforcement initiative program includes intake of complaints of Housing discrimination, investigation of alleged fair Housing violations, fair Housing testing, and pursuing the enforcement of meritorious claims.