Showing posts with label housing civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label housing civil rights. Show all posts

Aug 30, 2008

Housing civil rights complaints decline

The following information is from a special report released in August 2008 from the Bureau of Justice Statistics covering the civil rights complaints in U.S. District Courts, 1990-2006.

"Housing and accommodation civil rights claims represented 2% of all civil rights filings in 2006. These cases followed the same general trend as employment discrimination cases. There were 341 housing and accommodations related filings in 1990, a high of 1,315 filings in 2003, and a decline to 643 filings in 2006."


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