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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development contracted with the Fair Housing Resource Center, Inc. to conduct a county-wide systemic testing program to measure discrimination against families with children, African-Americans, and persons with disabilities in both the Lake County Ohio rental and sales housing markets. The program sought to identify and change a major social and economic problem in Lake County – severe housing segregation and the discriminatory behavior of professionals in housing that sustains the segregation.
FHRC found direct evidence that persons with disabilities encounter significant levels of adverse treatment when they search for rental housing in the Lake County area compared to nondisabled home seekers. FHRC also noted direct evidence that persons of color along, with families with children, are also encountering adverse treatment when home seeking compared to similarly situated white individuals without children.
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