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Human Rights Watch Raises Concerns About the Use of Housing Exclusions Based on Criminal Record  


Author:  Russ  Immarigeon.


Source: Volume 08, Number 05, January/February 2005 , pp.65-67(3)




Offender Programs Report

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Abstract: 

This article is an executive summary of a new Human Rights Watch report, “No Second Chance,” which raises important policy and practice concerns about the use of criminal records to exclude particular people from public housing. The editor gives incite into unfair practices and makes policy recommendations that push for relaxing the laws that ban ex-offenders from public housing.

Keywords: housing

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