{"id":18317,"date":"2012-04-12T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=18317"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T21:23:10","slug":"austin-tenants-council-housing-discrimination-against-the-deaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/austin-tenants-council-housing-discrimination-against-the-deaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Tenants’ Council \/ Housing Discrimination Against the Deaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Tenants’ Council \/ Housing Discrimination Against the Deaf<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Austin Tenants\u2019 Council has a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to do testing (\u201csecret shopping\u201d) when we receive complaints of housing discrimination.<\/p>\n

Over the next year, we are doing a special testing project where we need deaf individuals and hearing individuals who can sign to volunteer as testers (“secret shoppers”). The deaf testers will contact an apartment complex using a relay service to test the customer service (Does the complex hang up when they hear it\u2019s a relay call? Are they unwilling to answer questions using relay? Etc.).<\/p>\n

To get involved, you must attend a 90-minute training at the ATC office (1640 East 2nd Street). We will have an interpreter at the training.<\/p>\n

The training will be held in a few months.<\/p>\n

To get involved, please contact Morgan Morrison at 512-474-7007 x 104 or morgan@housing-rights.org. For more info about our program, please visit http:\/\/www.housing-rights.org\/volunteer.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austin Tenants’ Council \/ Housing Discrimination Against the Deaf The Austin Tenants\u2019 Council has a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to do testing (\u201csecret shopping\u201d) when we receive complaints of housing discrimination. Over the next…<\/p>\n

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