'All you really need to know is that Obama made it less onerous for discrimination victims to prove their case; Trump wants to make it more difficult.' (via latimesopinion)
The Iran nuclear deal. The Paris climate accords. DACA. Clean air and water regulations.of President Obama has been so single minded that you might be forgiven for thinking it’s his only ideology. Well, that and white supremacy.with undoing Obama-era laws and regulations that make our air and water cleaner, give us access to health insurance, make the workplace safer, and so on.that would make it more difficult for people to prove they’ve been the victims of housing discrimination.
A black couple would show up to look at an apartment, only to be told by the landlord that it had already been rented. Then my parents would show up and often be told the place was still available.Housing discrimination is still rampant, and the technique my parents used is still valuable.
Redlining, or refusing to lend or insure properties within a certain geographical area, has been illegal for decades. Nowadays, as the Newsday investigation showed, housing discrimination is accomplished in far more subtle ways.“I would have never known,” tester Johnnie Mae Alston, a retired state worker who is Black told Newsday. “They make you feel like they are treating you like everybody else… But once you see the other side, you realize you aren’t treated that well.
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