Comments on: HUD campaign raises housing non-discrimination awareness http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/04/13/hud-campaign-raises-housing-non-discrimination-awareness/ the gay community's news source Tue, 21 May 2013 10:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Colby http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/04/13/hud-campaign-raises-housing-non-discrimination-awareness/#comment-20456 John Colby Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:13:57 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=21092#comment-20456 The true test of HUD’s new campaign for LGBT equal access is the Mission Gardens Apartments, a Section 8 project in Santa Cruz, California. It is managed by The John Stewart Company and administered by the California Housing Finance Agency under contract to HUD.

At Mission Gardens, a gang of adult predators stalk residents who they perceive to be LGBT. They taunt them with homophobic profanities. They vandalize cars with LGBT hate symbols. They solicit neighbors with petitions to run (perceived) LGBT residents out of the apartment complex and off of the Section 8 program.

Worst, using the crudest of LGBT stereotypes, they spread vicious lies that (perceived) LGBT residents endanger resident children.

Like I wrote, the Mission Gardens Apartments is the true test for HUD’s new campaign to ensure equal access to (perceived) LGBT people to its Section 8 program.

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