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|  | Mayor Lightfoot announces Chicago Blueprint for Fair Housing
2021-04-09
--From a press release - MAYOR LIGHTFOOT ANNOUNCES BLUEPRINT FOR FAIR HOUSING New Assessment Outlines Actions the City will take over the next five years to advance fair housing to reduce residential segregation CHICAGO — Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot today announced ...
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| | WORLD Canadian groups, Moroccan refugee, LGBT+ Rights Ghana, trans heroine
2021-02-21
From $400,000 in funding for a national initiative aimed at expanding two-spirit advocacy, to $239,000 to improve LGBTQ youth housing access in the Prairies, 76 Canadian community groups are being sent nearly $15 million from the ...
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| | HUD to enforce the Fair Housing Act, leaders respond
2021-02-13
--Press release from U.S. Dept. Housing and Urban Development - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it will administer and enforce the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The HUD directive begins ...
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| | Quigley statement on HUD announcement of enforcement of Fair Housing Act
2021-02-11
--From a press release - Chicago, IL — Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, released a statement after the ...
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| | HUD to enforce act prohibiting discrimination on sexual orientation, gender identity
2021-02-11
--From a press release - WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced that it will administer and enforce the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. HUD's Office ...
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| | Florida to protect LGBTQ civil rights, embraces Bostock ruling
2021-02-03
--From a press release - St. Petersburg, FL - In a victory for LGBTQ Floridians, the agency that enforces state civil rights law has affirmed that discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity is ...
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| | Report: 51 years since Stonewall health, poverty, housing hurdles face LGBTQ 50+ NYers
2021-01-28
--From a press release - NEW YORK, N.Y. — LGBTQ New Yorkers age 50+ face steeper barriers to healthcare, higher rates of poverty, and greater challenges to their economic security than their non-LGBTQ counterparts, and the COVID-19 crisis has only exacerbated ...
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| | John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments in Castillo Plaza, LGBTQ housing in Logan Square
2020-12-18
Last month, The John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments at Castillo Plaza (Pennycuff) opened at the corner of Milwaukee and Campbell Avenues in Logan Square after four years of development and city approval meetings and for the past ...
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| | Pennycuff Memorial Apartments now open
2020-12-16
The John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments at Castillo Plaza is named for the late LGBTQ and civil rights activist, John Pennycuff. Located on Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, the building was designed by Cyrus Subawalla ...
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| | Missouri lesbian couple settles discrimination suit against senior housing community
2020-12-08
--From a press release - ST. LOUIS, MO — Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), along with co-counsel Relman Colfax PLLC, St. Louis LGBTQ civil rights attorney Arlene Zarembka, and the ACLU of Missouri announced the settlement of Walsh ...
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| | Nat'l Fair Housing Alliance, LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance address discrimination
2020-10-12
--From a press release - St. Paul, Minn. — The new LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) allowing for joint efforts to identify and rid the nation of housing ...
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| | New study examines pathways into poverty for LGBTQ adults
2020-09-30
--From a press release - A new report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law provides an exploration of common pathways into and prolonging poverty among a diverse population of low-income LGBTQ people in California. An analysis of interviews ...
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| | Five Worth Finding: Tom of Finland, help for renters, 'Batwoman'
2020-09-22
—Rentervention (https://lcbh.org/get-legal-help/rentervention): This webpage begins with a daunting statistic: Each year, more than 20,000 people are evicted from their homes in Chicago. Rentervention—a part of the ...
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| | Black trans disabled Chicagoan on long quest for affordable housing
2020-09-02
When Garnet Williams was set to enter their final year at Columbia College in 2014, they began to experience pain in their lower back. Because of this pain, Williams' life has changed dramatically these past six ...
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| | Judge stops HHS rule change from taking effect
2020-08-19
U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block issued a temporary injunction Monday (August 17), delaying the implementation of new rules written by the Trump administration that would eliminate protections for LGBT people in ...
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