HUD Explores the Reality of Trans Housing Discrimination

Filed By Adam Polaski | October 14, 2011 1:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/10/hud_explores_the_reality_of_trans_housing_discrimi.php

This week the White House responded to recent reports that a disproportionate number of LGBT people continue to experience discrimination while searching for permanent housing and other residency. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development published a release yesterday that detailed the government's plans to eliminate this discrimination and enact policies that assure proper investigation of anti-LGBT discrimination cases.

HUD said they have pursued 114 complaints of anti-LGBT discrimination in the first two year's of the Obama administration. That's three times more than in the previous two years, before Obama took office.

Much of the anti-LGBT housing discrimination has been targeted at the trans community. The discrimination, in part, contributes to many trans persons' experiences with homelessness.