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HUD Announces New Rules on LGBT Housing Discrimination

Speaking January 29 at the Creating Change conference in Baltimore, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan told conference attendees the government will be creating new rules to bolster existing regulations against LGBT discrimination in housing and lending. The new rule will prohibit owners and operators of HUD-assisted housing and HUD-insured housing from asking about an applicants sexual orientation or gender identity.  In addition to this, the narrow definition of "family" will now be widened to explicitly include LGBT families. Third, the new rule will also protect LGBT people when they are applying for a mortgage insured by HUD partner the FHA. Click here to read more.
 
 



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