The lower house of Colorado’s Legislature, the House of Representatives, has passed a “fair housing bill, ” outlawing discrimination, and a connected drive will be made this week to put the measure through the State Senate. According to Robert S. Gamzey, editor of The Jewish News here, the proposed legislation “goes farther in the direction of outlawing discrimination in housing” than any measure of the kind yet adopted anywhere in the United States on either the State or municipal level.
Influential real estate interests are reported lobbying vigorously against Senate adoption of the bill, and a stiff campaign is under way here to counter-act the lobbyists. Among the backers of the fair housing legislation now mobilized to advance passage of the bill are Jews and Christians, and many organizations including the Colorado Advisory Commission of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, the Colorado Committee on Discrimination, various Christian and Jewish church organizations.
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