Disability Housing Bias Complaints Rising (in Ohio)

See this article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It begins:

From 2000 through 2004, the percentage of fair housing complaints in Northeast Ohio charging discrimination based on disability equaled those based on race.

According to a survey of complaints in Northeast Ohio conducted by the Housing Research & Advocacy Center in Cleveland, the number of disability-based complaints increased by more than 50 percent during that time and those based on family status doubled, compared to the previous five-year period. The level of race discrimination complaints remained about the same.

The cases - an average of nearly 112 complaints a year in a six-county region - show that housing discrimination is still widespread here, 38 years after the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act, said Jeffrey Dillman, the center's executive director.

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