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Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities: Barriers At Every Step

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Margery Austin Turner
Carla Herbig
Deborah Kaye
Julie Fenderson
Diane Levy
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Not enough is known about the prevalence of housing discrimination against persons with disabilities. Only slightly more than half of Americans know that it is illegal for landlords to refuse to make reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities or to permit reasonable modification to a housing unit.1 And although HUD data indicate that the volume of Fair Housing Act disability-related complaints is now comparable to complaints based on race, no rigorous estimates of housing discrimination against persons with disabilities are available.2 A few organizations have conducted tests for discrimination against persons with disabilities, but these testing efforts were not designed to provide statistically valid measures of the incidence and forms of discrimination market-wide

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Paper provided by HUD USER, Economic Development in its series Economic Development Publications with number 39105.

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  1. Stephen L. Ross, 2008. "Understanding Racial Segregation: What is known about the Effect of Housing Discrimination," Working papers 2008-15, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics, revised Nov 2008. [Downloadable!]
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