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Office of Human Rights to release updated fair-housing testing showing source-of-income issues; staff seek investigator hires
Summary
Arlington’s Office of Human Rights said it will soon release the results of a new fair-housing testing study that expanded the bases tested to include source of income and disability. The office also said it is recruiting two human-rights investigators to handle complaints and EEO work.
Arlington County’s Office of Human Rights (OHR) briefed the County Board on March 13 about an updated fair-housing testing study and the office’s capacity needs to investigate discrimination complaints.
OHR Director Gurjeet Sheema said the office contracted Equal Rights Center (ERC) to perform 65 tests across 56 properties. Unlike older testing that focused mainly on race and national origin, the new ERC engagement added source-of-income, disability and familial-status testing.
Key findings and next steps - Source-of-income findings: Sheema said early results identified concerns about property…
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