Fred Freiberg

Executive Director, 
​Fair Housing Justice Center

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FRED FREIBERG serves as the Executive Director for the Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC), a regional civil rights organization based in New York City that he co-founded in 2004. Prior to 2004, Mr. Freiberg worked for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice where he directed a national testing program that he helped to establish in the Division’s Housing and Civil Enforcement Section in 1992. Mr. Freiberg was a founder and the first Executive Director of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council from 1977-1981. Mr. Freiberg was retained by the Urban Institute to manage the testing in two national research projects. He supervised the testing in a national research study of mortgage lending practices and directed the field implementation for the third and largest national study of housing discrimination conducted in the United States.
 
Mr. Freiberg is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on the use of testing as an investigative tool for enforcing civil rights laws. He has supervised and/or participated in thousands of testing investigations involving rental housing, real estate sales, new construction, nursing homes, mobile homes, places of public accommodation, and mortgage lending institutions. Mr. Freiberg's professional activities for fair housing span over four decades during which time he has testified in dozens of fair housing cases, published articles on fair housing, and received numerous awards for his accomplishments in the fair housing field.
Mr. Freiberg is also the Executive Producer of an award-winning fair housing documentary entitled A Matter of Place released in 2013. In 2016, he appeared in “A House Divided,” an episode from the EPIX Original docu-series called America Divided. From 2016-2019, he consulted with Newsday on the largest investigation into real estate practices conducted by any media outlet in the nation. He is featured in the resulting Newsday story “Long Island Divided” and appeared in the related video documentary Testing the Divide.