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Doors often closed to transgender tenants searching for housing

Started by stephaniec, September 27, 2015, 04:10:18 AM

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September 27, 2015, 04:10:18 AM
Doors often closed to transgender tenants searching for housing

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/25/doors-often-closed-to-transgender-tenant-searching-for-housing.html

America Aljazeera/September 25, 2015 5:00AM ET by Kia Gregory

"For as long as Paola Ramirez has journeyed through her gender identity, she has been haunted by housing insecurity — first as a pained young boy living with her parents in Guatemala, then on her own as a gay man and, finally, as a transgender woman in New York.

So she was understandably nervous this summer when the lease for her studio apartment in Queens went up for renewal under a new owner."
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