Since Trump’s election
as president, his ties to Russia have become the focus of intense scrutiny,
most of which has centered on whether his inner circle colluded with Russia to
interfere with the U.S. election, but now a growing chorus in Congress like
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee have
also begun to ask questions about how the president built his business empire,
calling for a deeper inquiry into “Russian investment in Trump’s businesses and
properties.” Joining me today to talk
all about this Trump-Russia connection is longtime journalist and contributing
editor at Vanity Fair Craig Unger who wrote a very
interesting piece for The New Republic
titled “Trump’s Russian Laundromat: How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House” which details many
of the Presidents shady dealings and associates within the world of Russian
organized crime.
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in 1968 Congress enacted The Fair Housing Act which is intended to protect
members of certain protected classes of people from discrimination in matters
of renting or buying property. However,
the law does not specifically include protections against discrimination based
on sexual orientation and gender identity, which according to many surveys has
led to instances of housing discrimination against of the LGBTQ community. Yet, most of the information from these
surveys is often anecdotal in nature and may not go beyond the most blatant
forms of discrimination, which why the Urban Institute took a closer look at the
issue with a new pilot study in three major U.S. metropolitan areas and what
they found was a number of instances of housing discrimination against gay men
and transgender people specifically.
Joining me today to talk all about the study and the need for more
expansive studies of this kind is Diane Levy who is a senior research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute and one of the co-authors of
the study.
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