Equity Matters
Renting a house can sometimes be more affordable. However, rental housing discrimination still happens a lot in the United States, even though it’s against the law. Communities of color and transgender people are more likely to face this kind of discrimination when trying to rent a home.[,]
[H22] Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012 Executive Summary. (2013). https://www.huduser.gov/portal/Publications/pdf/HUD-514_HDS2012_execsumm.pdf
[H23] Langowski, J., Berman, W., Holloway, R., McGinn, C. (2017). Transcending Prejudice: Gender Identity and Expression-Based Discrimination in the Metro Boston Rental Housing Market. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 29: 321. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2941810