Political and Legislative
New Federal Law Protects the LGBTQ Community from Housing Discrimination
The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that LGBTQ people are protected from housing discrimination by federal law.
Same-sex couples and transgender people face more housing discrimination, but the department had been “constrained” in addressing their discrimination claims due to “legal uncertainty about whether most such discrimination was within HUD’s reach,” officials stated Thursday in a press release.
President Joe Biden’s Day One executive order expanding the Supreme Court’s June 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia — which found that federal protections against sex-based employment bias also cover discrimination due to one’s sexual orientation or gender identity — addresses that uncertainty, according to Thursday’s release.
