Housing Discrimination Against Victims of Domestic Abuse

This Fact Sheet [PDF]* from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty provides information on your rights and options under the law in these situations:

• If you have been evicted, or
• If you have been denied housing, or
• If you have been denied a housing benefit after your landlord learned you had been abused or the victim of sexual assault

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Reviewed August 2009