Although complaints of housing discrimination in Northeast Ohio decreased in 2010 from 2009, the number remained significantly higher than the average number of complaints filed in the last 21 years and represented the third highest yearly total since 1990, according to a the new report issued by the Housing Research & Advocacy Center.
The report found that 186 complaints of housing discrimination were filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2010, compared to 226 in 2009 and a 21-year average of 128 complaints in Northeast Ohio. The Housing Center’s report also examined trends in discrimination complaints over the last ten years, finding an 72% increase in complaints filed from 2006-2010, when an average of 189.6 complaints were filed each year, compared to the previous five-year period, when the yearly average was 110.4. This increase was due to a 46.6% increase in the number of cases based on race (from 189 to 277) and a 38.9% increase in the number of cases based on disability (from 180 to 250).
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