On December 5, 2017, Legal Aid of North Carolina announced that it had settled a federal discrimination complaint filed against Wake County Human Services on behalf of a disabled woman who received rental assistance through the county’s Rental Assistance Housing Program. Under the terms of the settlement, the county will provide additional protections to program participants who …
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Implementing HUD’s Smoke-Free Policy in Public Housing (7/2017)
HUD-HHS-DOJ Letter Regarding Immigrant Access to Housing & Services
Bazelon Center, “When Opportunity Knocks” (April 2014)
Research Links Higher Racial Segregation with Increased Cancer
A study published in the January 2013 issue of the medical journal JAMA Surgery finds that African Americans have higher lung cancer mortality rates than whites and that African Americans who live in the most segregated counties in the U.S. have 20% higher mortality rates than African Americans who live in less segregated counties. By contrast, whites …