A new report shows widespread housing discrimination in Vermont’s rental market. Rachel Batterson, Project Manager of Vermont Legal Aid’s Housing Discrimination Law Project directed the study, conducted between 2009 and 2011. It found that rental housing providers gave preferential treatment to white renters 38% of the time; preferred white, American-born renters 40% of the time; preferred applicants with no children 36% of the time; and showed preferential treatment towards renters without disabilities 27 percent of the time.
VPR’s Jane Lindholm talked with Batterson abut how the study was done and what the results mean.