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Impact of Discrimination ...on Wealth Homeownership A 2018 Freddie Mac survey found that 49% of LGBT+ Americans own a home, as compared to the national average of 64%. Among trans people, the rate is nearly half the average. 13% of LGBT+ homeowners in a Freddie Mac 2018 survey said they experienced prejudice when buying a home, while nearly half said they feared discrimination in the home-buying process.
Housing Search 61% of transgender and gender non-conforming respondents in a Yale Journal of Law study received discriminatory differential treatment in their housing search: 27% less likely to be shown additional areas of the apartment complex. 21% less likely to be offered a financial incentive to rent 12% more likely to be told negative comments about the apartment and the neighborhood 9% more likely to be quoted a higher rental price than people who were not transgender and conformed to typical gender standards. A 2017 study from the Urban Institute found that Dallas and LA housing agents were less likely to schedule appointments with gay men than straight men.
Employment Transgender individuals are more likely to work in criminalized industries. A 2020 survey of 157 sex workers in St. Louis and Kansas City, MO, conducted by the ACLU of Missouri and the MO Ho Justice Coalition, found that 38% of respondents identified as transgender. 2015 Trans Survey in Missouri (USTS-MO): 16% of those that had been employed reported losing a job in their lifetime because of their gender identity or expression. 26% of those who held or applied for a job during that year reported being fired, being denied a promotion, or not being hired for a job they applied for because of their gender identity or expression. 27% of national respondents were living in poverty 19% of respondents were unemployed.
