{"id":94262,"date":"2022-05-06T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=94262"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:32:31","slug":"tenants-advocate-speaks-out-against-rental-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/tenants-advocate-speaks-out-against-rental-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenants&#8217; advocate speaks out against rental discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sackville man who is searching for affordable housing says he's encountered roadblocks, including landlords who won\u2019t accept him as a tenant because he has children.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>But an advocate for the rights of tenants says that\u2019s an example of rental discrimination, which is illegal under provincial human rights legislation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI think that it's important to make [people aware] that is not legal, this kind of discrimination,\u201d says Jael Duarte,\u00a0a lawyer and tenants\u2019 advocate for New Brunswick, employed by the Saint John-based Human Development Council.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The home rented by Reggie Beal, a father of three, is up for sale, and he\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/do-you-pay-rent-or-do-you-feed-your-family-affordable-housing-advocates-to-address-town-councillors\/\">trying to find an affordable place to live<\/a> with his three young children.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>For more on this story, CHMA spoke to the Fredericton-based tenants\u2019 advocate, asking her how widespread housing discrimination based on family status is in New Brunswick.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sackville man who is searching for affordable housing says he&#8217;s encountered roadblocks, including landlords who won\u2019t accept him as a tenant because he has children. But an advocate for the rights of tenants says that\u2019s an example of rental discrimination, which is illegal under provincial human rights legislation. \u201cI think that it&#8217;s important to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":94267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[579,571,14419],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94269,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94262\/revisions\/94269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94262"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=94262"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=94262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}