CITY OF NAPA
PROCLAMATION
Fair Housing Month
April 2025
WHEREAS, the Greater Napa Valley Fair Housing Center brings awareness of fair housing rights, responsibilities and emphasizing the importance of diverse and inclusive communities. Our work in the county includes fair housing discrimination enforcement and investigations, landlord/tenant counseling, education and outreach, disaster related housing counseling and related assistance to mobile home parks; and WHEREAS, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, and disability; and WHEREAS, every April, together as a Nation we celebrate the Fair Housing Act, a pivotal policy signed into law on April 11th, 1968, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and after extensive efforts made by President Lyndon Johnson, which lead to the fight to end housing discrimination; and WHEREAS, in the year 2024, GNVFHC served 726 families in Napa County in which 423 are extremely low income, 549 are children, 452 are female head of household, 237 disabled and 64% of the families served are of Hispanic National Orgin.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that I, Scott Sedgley, Mayor of Napa, together with the Napa City Council, hereby proclaim April as Fair Housing Month. Together we can fight to ensure that everyone has a right to live without fear of housing discrimination.
Dated: April 15, 2025
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SCOTT SEDGLEY, MAYOR
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