Blog 8: "HUD rule aims to cut discrimination"

In Detroit, Michigan there is a conversation that is going on about the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)- funding housing; about how HUD have been discriminating against families based on sexual orientation or gender identity. They have been doing this by asking applicants to state their sexual orientation or gender identity on the application to receive HUD. Now, an Obama administration official announced Friday that there is a new rule that took into effect this week that they are no longer allowed to ask applicants the question of their sexual orientation or gender identity anymore. "HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said the new equal access to housing rule “says clearly and unequivocally that LGBT individuals and couples have the right to live where they choose.”" Due to the HUD discrimination there are many homeless youth in Detroit who are LGBT and across America.

To me this is a very big social problem that is gradually being solved. People in our government are taking action about discrimination against LGBT families. The housing conversation still has a lot of blind discrimination going on and not just in the LGBT community. Real estate agents still use a way of steering individuals of a particular color to a particular neighborhood by only showing them those particular neighborhood. To me there is still a huge issue with families discrimination on the home owning or renting level racial and LGBT or gender identity. But I believe this action taken by the government is a good step in the right direction on fixing one of the many social problems.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hud-rule-aims-to-cut-discrimination/2012/03/09/gIQAvuov5R_story.html