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Relationship between housing scarcity and housing discrimination
1:37:25
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Commissioner Anthony Richardson asks Britny McKenzie if housing scarcity drives housing discrimination, based on FHJC's work.
McKenzie states that based on their investigations, housing discrimination is prevalent across the city, regardless of the level of housing supply in a given community.
Anthony Richardson
1:37:25
Thank you both for your testimony.
1:37:27
And, given your work at the Fair Housing Justice Center, I think there was other testimony talking about the extent to which the scarcity of housing drives the discriminatory practices.
1:37:38
I'd be interested to hear if you found that concur with that statement.
Britny McKenzie
1:37:45
Housing discrimination is very prevalent and is happening regardless of whether, communities have a lot of housing or a little bit of housing.
1:37:54
And that's what we see in our investigative efforts.
1:37:56
So I would say it's not restricted to just communities that don't have enough units.
1:38:01
But it's really happening throughout the city.