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Help Wanted on Gay Housing Study


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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants gay input for a new study designed to measure housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to The Washington Post,HUD will enlist residents in three cities with large gay populations — Chicago, New York, and San Francisco — beginning Thursday to help determine “creative” ways to conduct the first-of-its-kind national study.

“Bias complaints and lawsuits nationwide make clear that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people face housing discrimination, from being turned down for apartments to being steered away from certain neighborhoods, but no one has tried to track how common such bias is. HUD hopes to begin collecting data next year,” reports the Post.

Unlike past federal studies that tested racial discrimination in housing, the problem with an antigay discrimination housing study is that, unlike race in most cases, sexual orientation and gender identity often are not obvious.

Study proponents want the effort to result in a change in federal law.

“The federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination in sales and rentals of homes, doesn't cover gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people,” reports the Post. “Advocates hope HUD's effort to gather data could be a first step toward obtaining legal protections.”

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Kimberly Altieri
    Date posted: 2/28/2010 11:08:57 PM
    Hometown: Houston

    Comment:

    try living in houston and inheriting a 300g house from your dad and being TG and getting pulled over by the neighborhood cop everytime you pull into your own neighborhood that you pay 700 dollars a month in property taxes (broken down) and pay all your deed restrictions to the homeowners association on time then have jerks turning you in for everything for the same things they r doing i had sheets over one window in the back of my house because the blinds broke and less than 5 days later i got threatened with fines and told the homeowners association can kick me out of the neighborhood for not complying. they need to research in the hick states like texas.

  • Name: Don Perry
    Date posted: 2/27/2010 5:47:18 PM
    Hometown: Sandusky, Ohio

    Comment:

    The atricle about the housing, its not the big cities that are the ones discriminating, it would be the smaller towns with the homophobic people in them that don't want gay people moving in next to them and things like that, I have found that the larger cities are very tolerable of all kinds of diversities, so if they are going to do studies on the big cities they really need to do some of the small cities as well to get real perspective on things.

  • Name: bob
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 8:25:01 PM
    Hometown: DC

    Comment:

    What's to study? In 29 states you can be denied housing for being anything other than hetero. Again, have them stop this, enough studies!

  • Name: ttt
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 2:09:52 PM
    Hometown: illinois

    Comment:

    A small step forward.



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