Sacramento Escorts: HUD Looks To Anti-Gay Bias Investigation
Additionally, while local and state studies of this type have been conducted, nothing on the federal level has been done. It is hoped by advocates that this federal study could be a first step.
Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said, “It finally will give us hard data to back up the heartbreaking stories of discrimination we’ve been hearing for years. This HUD study will show that there are a class of people … who have been repeatedly shut out of that portion of the American dream.”
Michigan’s Fair Housing Centers, which is a group of private advocacy organizations, found nearly 30 percent of same-sex couples were treated “differently” when trying to rent or buy a home. Included as examples were a Detroit landlord who told investigators, “No drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, one-night stands.”
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