Each year, many children across the United States experience housing discrimination or witness it occurring in their community.
For example, a child who wants to live in a certain apartment complex but then learns that her parents can't rent there because they have a kid may get upset and even feel guilty. A landlord who steers minority applicants to a certain building in a complex may cause a child to wonder why his friend can't live in one of the vacant apartments on his floor.
To help raise children's awareness and understanding of fair housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has created Franklin "The Fair Housing Fox," who offers some answers to questions that may be on children's minds.
If you have kids, consider using Fair Housing Month as an opportunity to show them "10 Things Franklin Wants You to Know."
Return tomorrow for the seventeenth part of this special "Fair Housing Month" feature at Fairhousingblog.com.
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