Disability Remains Top Basis for Housing Discrimination Complaints

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released its annual report for Congress on the state of housing discrimination. The report reveals that 4,675 (or 44%) of the complaints lodged in 2008 were based on disability discrimination.

This is the fourth year in a row in which disability-based discrimination has proven to be the most common type of fair housing complaint, and its numbers have been climbing, according to HUD's data.

Do you know what kind of disability is protected under the Fair Housing Act? Also, read how the law's ban on disability-based discrimination may protect you -- even if you don't have a disability.

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