Kerry, Nadler Propose Fair Housing Bill for LGBTs

[Shana A]

Posted on Advocate.com September 22, 2011 09:35:00 AM ET
Kerry, Nadler Propose Fair Housing Bill for LGBTs
By Andrew Harmon

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/22/Kerry_Nadler_Introduce_Fair_Housing_Bill_for_LGBTs/

Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts has introduced federal legislation to expressly prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination in housing.

The bill, known as the Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act, or HOME Act, would amend the 1968 Fair Housing Act to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, as well as amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prevent such discrimination in lending (the bill would also bar discrimination based on source of income and marital status). A House version of the bill will be introduced later today by Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York.