by admin | Feb 18, 2015 | Featured, Housing, Legal, Press Releases, Resources, Uncategorized, Violence
New Reports Find Widespread Discrimination, Economic Vulnerably, and Health Disparities Washington, D.C., February 18, 2015 — In a year when transgender Americans are experiencing unprecedented visibility in the State of the Union address, the media, and popular...
by admin | Nov 25, 2014 | California, Featured, Housing, Policy
Yesterday, Transgender Law Center sent a letter to the Oakland City Council detailing our opposition to Oakland’s Nuisance Eviction Ordinance—a law that allows the City to force evictions of sex workers. The letter was co-signed by 22 LGBT, civil and human rights...
by admin | Nov 7, 2014 | California, Featured, Housing, Legal, Movement Building, Policy, Public Accommodations, Violence
Last week, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to add grievous new provisions to a city law that strips tenants’ rights on the mere suspicion of certain illegal activities. At a time when gentrification and soaring housing costs mean Oakland tenants are in dire...
by admin | Nov 3, 2014 | California, Featured, Housing, Legal, Policy
Last week, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to add grievous new provisions to a city law that strips tenants’ rights on the mere suspicion of certain illegal activities. At a time when gentrification and soaring housing costs mean Oakland tenants are in dire...
by admin | Feb 27, 2013 | Featured, Health, Housing, Public Accommodations
The sequester is a massive slate of spending cuts that will kick in automatically on March 1 if Congress does not act to stop it. From the White House’s informational page: “Congress, back in 2011, also passed a law saying that if both parties couldn’t...
by admin | Mar 14, 2012 | Housing
By Matt Wood On March 5, 2012, new regulations went into effect to protect the rights of LGBT people who live in public housing or who have Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured mortgages. The LGBT Equal Access Policy, issued by the U.S. Department of Housing...
