Fair Housing Center Of Central Indiana, Inc.

Fair Housing Center Of Central Indiana, Inc. (doing business as Fair Housing Center Of Central In I) is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana that serves as a federal grant recipient delivering fair housing enforcement, discrimination testing, and public education services to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity under the Fair Housing Organization Initiatives program (CFDA 14.417) and related initiatives.

The organization operates exclusively as a prime grant recipient with no federal contract work or subcontract activity; all twenty awards in its recent portfolio are grants from HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Fair Housing Center Of Central Indiana operates across a 24-county service area in central Indiana covering the Indianapolis metropolitan statistical area, the cities of Bloomington, Columbus, and Muncie, HUD-defined rural counties, and portions of east-central Indiana along the Ohio border, with some statewide reach given the absence of competing fair housing organizations in Indiana.

The organization's capability footprint centers on three concrete service lines. First, housing discrimination testing and systemic investigation work—recruiting and training testers to conduct rental, lending, and homeowners insurance testing to identify Fair Housing Act violations; conducting intake of discrimination complaints and conducting intake across areas including sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination, appraisal bias, algorithmic lending bias, criminal record policies with disparate impact, and environmental justice housing issues. Second, fair housing complaint investigation and enforcement—processing allegations, providing technical assistance on investigations, opening systemic investigations, and pursuing enforcement actions and settlements. Third, public education and outreach—delivering Fair Housing Act trainings and webinars to landlords, real estate agents, housing industry professionals, community organizations, and the general public, with targeted programming on topics including fair lending, appraisals, environmental justice, religious discrimination, and hate crimes.

Recent representative awards include a $145,370 project grant awarded March 9, 2026 (performance through March 8, 2027), a $125,000 project grant awarded March 4, 2026 (performance through March 3, 2027), a Fair Housing Organization Initiatives Capacity Development and Collaboration (FHOI-CDC) project grant awarded July 1, 2024 focused on systemic and client-based investigation capacity around sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination, appraisal bias, and algorithmic lending bias, a Fair Housing Organization Initiatives Education and Outreach (EOI-GC) project grant awarded June 1, 2024 targeting 20 collaborative trainings, 15 partnership trainings, and alternative-language and technical trainings across the service area, and a Private Enforcement Initiatives (PEI-MYC) three-year grant awarded May 1, 2024 targeting 300 fair housing allegations processed, 100 rental test parts, and 50 new systemic investigations opened. The organization has received all awards from the single customer—HUD's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity—with annual award volume ranging from two to three grants per year over the past five years, and two awards (combined obligation value not specified in source) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months.