Biden administration will investigate claims of anti-LGBTQ housing discrimination

President of the United States Joe Biden
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President Joe Biden’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) just announced that it will investigate sexual orientation and gender identity housing discrimination claims and signaled that they are looking into overturning one of the Trump administration’s most odious anti-transgender policies.

In a directive released today, the HUD said that it will interpret the Fair Housing Act of 1968’s ban on discrimination based on sex to include anti-LGBTQ discrimination and investigate claims made by LGBTQ people dating back to January 20, 2021.

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A statement announcing the directive cites “a number of housing discrimination studies which indicate that same-sex couples and transgender persons… experience demonstrably less favorable treatment than their straight and cisgender counterparts when seeking rental housing.”

The HUD referred to the Supreme Court’s landmark LGBTQ decision in Bostock v. Clayton Co., which found that…

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