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Fair Housing Council of Orange County Records
MS.R.165
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Fair Housing Council of Orange County records
Creator:
Fair Housing Council of Orange County
(Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.165
Physical Description:
1.4 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1970-1986
Abstract: This collection consists of materials
related to the Fair Housing Council of Orange County (FHCOC), a private non-profit
organization formed in 1965 in the wake of the civil rights movement that resulted in the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Council incorporated in 1968, the same year that Congress
extended civil rights protections to cover housing with the adoption of the Fair Housing
Act. The collection includes court documents including actions brought by the FHCOC against
the City of Irvine and The Irvine Company to compel implementation of the of the Fair
Housing Act of 1968; City of Irvine planning documents reflecting settlement steps taken to
implement court ordered actions; and FHCOC newsletters and economic reports.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in
English.
This collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or
to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Fair Housing Council of Orange County Records. MS-R165. Special Collections and Archives,
The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Transferred from the UCI Libraries Orange County Collection, Non-Government documents in
May 2012.
Processed by Chris S. Ervin, 2012 October.
The Fair Housing Council of Orange County (FHCOC) is a private non-profit organization
formed in 1965 in the wake of the civil rights movement that resulted in the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. The Council incorporated in 1968, the same year that Congress extended civil
rights protections to cover housing with the adoption of the Fair Housing Act. The Fair
Housing Council of Orange County is governed by a volunteer board of directors and an
operating member of the National Fair Housing Alliance. Through comprehensive community
education, individual counseling, mediation, and low-cost advocacy, the FHCOC works to
eliminate housing discrimination and guarantee the rights of all people to freely choose the
housing for which they qualify in the area they desire. The agency works to fulfill a
mission of protecting the quality of life in Orange County by ensuring equal access to
housing opportunities, fostering diversity and preserving dignity and human rights.
Contracting to serve all of Orange County's local governments for provision of fair housing
services for their residents, the Fair Housing Council handles more than 250 cases of
alleged housing discrimination in the county each year.
Collection Scope and Content Summmary
This collection contains documents related to fair housing regulations, litigation,
settlements, and activism in Orange County, California, with an emphasis on influencing
decisions made by the City of Irvine during the 1970s and 1980s. The materials include legal
actions brought by the Fair Housing Council of Orange County against the City of Irvine and
The Irvine Company, litigation settlements that compelled implementation of the Fair Housing
Act, housing-related regulatory documents published by the County of Orange and City of
Irvine, analysis and planning reports generated for the Fair Housing Council of Orange
County and Irvine City Council, and newsletters published by the Fair Housing Council of
Orange County for public consumption.
This collection is arranged in 2 series:
- Series 1. Legal documents
- Series 2. Publications
Related material can be found in the following collections:
Leonard C. Moffitt Files on the Planning of Orange County and University of California,
Irvine (Collection MS-R116). Department of Special Collections and Archives, University of
California, Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4x0nf20k/
League of Women Voters of Orange County Records (Collection MS-R088). Department of Special
Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt567nc4jn/
Further information about the Fair Housing Council of Orange County is available
online at
fairhousingoc.org
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Legal documents -- California -- Orange County -- 20th
century
Land use -- Law and legislation -- California -- Orange
County
Real estate development -- California -- Orange County -- History --
Sources
Discrimination in housing -- California -- Orange County -- 20th
century
City planning -- California -- Irvine -- History -- Sources.
Activists -- California -- Orange County.
Irvine Company
Fair Housing Council of Orange County
(Calif.)
Irvine (Calif.). City Council