Our Impact

The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI) is dedicated to facilitating open housing for all. Our impact can be shown through numbers and the story telling from Hoosiers we have helped. As the only nonprofit fair housing organization in Indiana, we are the leading voice in raising awareness and creating needed fair housing change. Through our work, we ensure the availability of affordable and accessible housing; promote housing choice and homeownership; advocate for an inclusive housing market; work toward stable and equitable communities; and eradicate discrimination.

Annual Impact – 2024

In 2024, the FHCCI directly interacted with 19,270 people through client intake and education and outreach programs. Learn more about the work of the FHCCI in our 2024 Annual Report.

Through Community Voices, grass roots organizations discuss the long-term impact of discriminatory forces such as redlining, racial covenants, blockbusting, and other harms, and how we can come together to tackle these barriers and invest in our neighborhoods.

1,801 Hoosiers Counseled

Our counseling team assist housing consumers and housing providers from across Indiana with their housing-related questions and needs. Common categories of inquiry included:

  • Landlord/tenant (747);
  • Housing discrimination (542) alleging 680 types of discrimination;
  • General inquiry (261);
  • Other (251)

95 training events / 7,679 training attendees

We provide training to community members and housing providers on housing rights and resources through webinars, presentations, and our annual events – a legal seminar and fair housing conference. Many of these trainings are free to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to learn.

58 exhibits / 7,194 interactions

To raise awareness of the services we provide and to reach people where they are, the FHCCI exhibits at community events to directly interact with attendees to provide guidance and housing resources. In 2024, these events were wide-ranging from local fairs, religious gatherings, ethnic celebrations, Pride events, and so much more. Our popular exhibit, “Unwelcomed: A Fair Housing History of Sales & Lending Discrimination,” also continued its travel across Indiana.

25,284 publications distributed

The FHCCI publishes and distributes numerous housing-related resources to empower consumers to have knowledge of their rights and encourage housing providers to meet their responsibilities under different housing laws. Publications are often translated into several different languages based on populations served in Indiana.

Data Portal launched / 2,600 Interactions


To further empower the public’s knowledge of housing and mortgage lending disparities throughout Indiana, the FHCCI released our Data Portal in 2024 which had over 2,600 interactions in that year alone. The portal provided data for 20 Indiana counties based upon key metrics related to the U.S. Census and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).

6 housing reports / 5,710 downloads

To raise awareness about challenges housing consumers are facing, the FHCCI uses data and analysis and releases detailed reports. In 2024, topics included mortgage lending disparities, challenges faced by manufactured housing residents, predatory land contracts, foreclosure trends, and more.

Link to: Testimonials
Link to: Inclusive Communities
Link to: Reports

Overall Impact – 2012 to 2024

The FHCCI was incorporated in 2011 and opened its doors in January 2012 with a small team of five full-time employees. Today, the FHCCI is eight full-time employees. Despite its small size, the FHCCI has had incredible impact in its 13 years of operations in reaching people in need, assisting housing providers, and facilitating open housing for all. Although much work remains, we recognize the accomplishments below.

Hear from our client, Donata, on how the FHCCI assisted her in challenging race and national origin harassment in her neighborhood.

53,133 Housing Units Opened From Discrimination


Through the direct intervention of the FHCCI’s proactive educational efforts as well as enforcement actions to hold housing providers accountable, the FHCCI can count over 53,000 housing units opened up from discrimination.

13,631 Hoosiers Counseled

The FHCCI has assisted over 13,000 Hoosiers with their housing-related needs, including processing 3,783 individual complaints of housing discrimination.

4,642 allegations of housing discrimination


The 3,783 complaints of housing discrimination documented by the FHCCI contained 4,642 allegations of harm. Disability- and race-based allegations were the most common received.

$70.4 million in community relief + 3 new bank branches


Through fair housing resolutions dedicated for community relief and the investment of significant FHCCI staff time, the FHCCI has been able to achieve substantial community relief in the form of mortgage loan origination and subsidies, affordable housing development, homeowner repair, neighborhood stabilization, new construction and rehab of vacant housing units, and the creation of three new bank branches in Indy’s Black neighborhoods. Learn more about this investment here.

784 training events / 41,461 training attendees

The FHCCI staff have provided hundreds of community presentations and hosted free topical webinars on housing-related topics. The FHCCI also hosts an annual fair housing conference which draws attendees from all across the country as well as a yearly legal seminar. Together, these different events are meant to reach those who want to be informed of their rights and responsibilities under law.

476 exhibits / 42,945 interactions


Being out in the community is an important part of our mission as it allows us to share important housing resources with our neighbors. The FHCCI has also hosted and created our own exhibits to reach housing consumers, such as on the role of investors in our single-family housing markets and the very popular, “Unwelcomed: A Fair Housing History of Sales and Lending Discrimination,” which has traveled to different locations across Indiana since 2022.

409,980 publications distributed


The FHCCI has produced and distributed numerous publications with various intents – brochures for housing consumers to understand their rights, fact sheets for housing providers to understand the law guiding their responsibilities, and guides to assist the community in exercising and protecting their fair housing rights. We have also created posters, yard signs, and other promotional items, all with a goal of message sharing and informing.

13 housing reports / 27,291 downloads

Through a mix of data and story telling, the FHCCI releases reports to engage the public on housing barriers and challenges. Often, these reports are based on community challenges brought to the FHCCI’s attention. Other times, they are topics that may be challenging for consumers to identify.

We Need Your Help

The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI) receives 85% of its funding through the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP). In 2025, that funding is at risk through grant terminations and the zeroing out of FHIP in the federal budget. This would put the long-term viability of the FHCCI in meeting the needs of Hoosiers at major risk. Here is how you can help:

These requests should only take a few minutes of your time. The FHCCI thanks you for any support you are able to give. Thank you for your time!