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If you want to join the fight to legalize Palliative Marijuana, contact David Samuels at (860) 570-0782 or samuelssloflo@aol.com.  

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The WECA Housing Discrimination Task Force was formed in February 2006. The task force is actually an extension of the work of a previous WECA subcommittee.

In 2002 WECA received complaints from West End residents that a property management company in the neighborhood was discriminating against people of color who attempted to rent apartments.

A subsequent investigation by this subcommittee revealed that this company was indeed denying black and Hispanic residents access to apartments in certain areas of the West End. This led to a series of WECA supported protests against the company.

The subcommittee probe also revealed that this company had been fined multiple times by the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ( CHRO) for discriminating against people of color. The fine was always the same amount and obviously did nothing to deter the company from continuing its discriminatory practices.

The goal of the WECA Housing Discrimination Task Force is to introduce legislation that will result in escalating fines for companies that are repeatedly found guilty of the same acts of housing discrimination.

 

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