The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) is asking members of the trans community in the New York City area to come to a first-of-its-kind town hall meeting with officials from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the launch of HUD’s groundbreaking national study of housing discrimination against LGBT people and families. HUD wants to inform the community about the study and get community input to help shape it.
The meeting takes place on Friday, February 26 from 1 – 4 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., Room 301, in Manhattan. Please RSVP to Jasmin Varjavand if you plan to attend. Future meetings will take place in Chicago and San Francisco.
Trans people continue to be discriminated against in the housing arena, and most states, cities, and municipalities do not have housing anti-discrimination laws that include gender identity. Trans voices, experiences, and ideas need to be heard, and our input into this study is valuable.
This "national listening tour," as it is called on HUD's blog, and HUD's creation of this study are visible signs of support from the federal government and important steps in ending housing discrimination for LGBT people.
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The main statement I can make here is, that none of this would have happened under the previous eight years of Republican Dictatorship. Positive developments like this only happen under a Liberal Administration.
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