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"President Biden and Vice President Harris promised to move quickly to deliver results for working families. That's what they've done." The White House

Fact: The White House is worth $397.9 million, according to US-based real-estate listings firm Zillow, who calculated the price in 2017. That is equivalent to £290 million, making it worth more than the most expensive house in Britain.

LA Council adopts permanent tenant protections

The council voted 12-0 — with two recusals — for an ordinance to be drafted to implement the protections. It then went into recess while staff worked to immediately prepare the ordinance, which was later also adopted unanimously. The protections, which await Mayor Karen Bass' signature, are expected to be in effect prior to the expiration of the state of emergency.

State lawmakers hold vigil in honor of Monterey Park victims

 

The California Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus (AAPILC) held a vigil outside the State Capitol in Sacramento to stand in solidarity with the grieving families from the Monterey Park mass shooting.

Legal action against Southwest Airlines has already started

The first of what is sure to become many lawsuits has been filed against Southwest Airlines. The suit, is a proposed class action suit, alleging the airline isn’t offering refunds for flights canceled during last month’s weather and holiday travel, Reuters reports. Southwest canceled around 5,400 of its flights in less than 48 hours beginning on December 26, leaving passengers stranded as storms raged across parts of the South and Midwest.

Study Ties Abortion Restrictions to 'Significant' Jump in Suicide Rates for Young Women

We conducted the survey with self-administrated questionnaires. We trained human resources specialists of the factories and senior undergraduate medical students from each city as investigators prior to the investigation.

Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap

Black households in the United States have, on average, considerably less wealth than white households. In 2021, the average wealth of households with a head identifying as black was $160,000, while the corresponding level for white-headed households was $998,000, nearly 5.5 times greater. The fact that blacks, on average, have considerably less wealth than whites is troubling, not just because it is an inequality of outcomes, but also because it strongly suggests inequality of opportunity. The economic opportunities provided by wealth range from insuring consumption against disruptions to a household’s disposable income (such as surprise medical expenditures or unemployment spells) to enabling access to housing, good public schools, and postsecondary education. 

Because of the racial inequity upon which America was built and which is ingrained in American life today, when people see those Black and Brown lives being broken, people feel less empathy and pain than they would if the victims were white. American society’s tolerance for dysfunction (wrongful convictions, grossly excessive sentences, police brutality, and criminalization of addiction, poverty, and mental illness) is higher than it would be if the victims were considered by mainstream America to be lives that mattered: white lives.

Transgender Americans’ housing crisis

Get housing assistance for transgender individuals

Homelessness is the most extreme way LGBTQ Americans endure housing instability. In the case of LGBT youth, “The evidence shows that breakdown in young people’s families is the main driver of homelessness,” explained Laura Durso, vice president of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress. Discrimination also makes finding stable and safe housing more difficult for LGBTQ Americans.

A study matched potential housing applicants, or testers, with people similar in every way except for sexual orientation or gender identity. The testers then made the same inquiries about available rental units and expressed the same qualifications and housing needs.

“The study found that landlords treated lesbian couples comparably with straight couples, but housing providers were less likely to show gay men available units and quoted them higher prices. 

Biden administration extends housing protections to LGBTQ people.

Same-sex couples and transgender individuals disproportionately experience housing discrimination and will now have access to recourse under federal law.

President Joe Biden’s Day One executive order expanding the Supreme Court’s June 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia — which found that federal protections against sex-based employment bias also cover discrimination due to one’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

“Enforcing the Fair Housing Act to combat housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s the correct reading of the law after Bostock,” Damon Y. Smith, HUD’s principal deputy general counsel, said in a statement. “We are simply saying that the same discrimination that the Supreme Court has said is illegal in the workplace is also illegal in the housing market.”