Unfair housing
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🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Emily Péola. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, I thought it was too bad on Trulia at 181 Parcaz. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, I'm trying to okay. Could I ask you how you credit it? |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, I have a 730. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, awesome. And how's the income? |
| 0:37.0 | I'm working right now. I'm currently making like 40,000. |
| 0:42.0 | And I also have a Section 8 voucher. |
| 0:46.0 | It'll help me pay for the rent if I'm able to use it. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, I drive. |
| 1:03.0 | You just heard a phone call between a prospective tenant |
| 1:06.0 | and a real estate broker in Westchester. Westchester is a suburb of New York City. |
| 1:09.0 | For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, the broker was a real person. |
| 1:12.0 | The prospective tenant was a plant. |
| 1:15.0 | She was calling that broker to see whether she'd be turned away |
| 1:18.0 | because of her Section 8 housing voucher. And she was. |
| 1:21.0 | And that's why Aaron Carr is filing a lawsuit today. |
| 1:25.0 | That broker clearly, unequivocally, undoubtedly, |
| 1:29.0 | illegally rejected our tenant and broke fair housing laws. |
| 1:33.0 | Aaron's the executive director of an organization called Housing Rights Initiative, |
| 1:37.0 | which means his life's work is ensuring people have a fair shot at housing. |
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