The Power: Fair Housing Act

From: The Power:

Have you or someone you know experienced discrimination in the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on LGBT status?  We need your stories!

Last June, at a press conference convened by The Power to mark the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, promised that his office would begin the process of reviewing the nation’s civil rights laws to include LGBT people.  On Thursday, he fulfills that promise when he chairs a hearing entitled “Protecting the American Dream: A Look into the Fair Housing Act,” the first in a series of hearings to consider the need to amend the Fair Housing Act to include LGBT people.

Expansion of the Fair Housing Act to include LGBT people would be only the second effort (after ENDA) of this congress to include LGBT people in the nation’s civil rights laws.

Share your stories:  The Power is collecting stories of discrimination to deliver to Congressman Nadler for subsequent hearings.  If you or someone you know has experienced discrimination in the sale, rental, or financing of housing on the basis of LGBT status or relationship, please send your stories to FHAStories@ThePowerOnline.org.  Send a written story, or, if your are able to, record your story as a video, upload it to YouTube, and send us the link.  You can also show your support for amending the Fair Housing Act and the nation’s other civil rights laws, and help organize for their passage in your own congressional district by signing the petition at www.ThePowerOnline.org.

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