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Lawmakers, testers and tenants press committee to adopt stronger enforcement against housing discrimination
Summary
Senators, a housing discrimination testing program and voucher holders urged the committee to pass S.245/H.431 to link Attorney General findings to temporary license suspensions for real estate brokers and require fair housing training, quarterly disciplinary disclosures and a board seat with lived experience.
Lawmakers, fair-housing testers and tenants described widespread housing discrimination in Massachusetts and urged the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure to advance S.245 and H.431, an act to end housing discrimination.
Senator Gomez said testing and research show high rates of discrimination, especially against Black renters and voucher holders, and said existing laws are insufficient without coordinated enforcement. "Housing discrimination in Massachusetts is real," he told the committee, citing a 2020 study that found 71 percent of Black testers…
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