The Philadelphia City Council has unanimously approved an amendment to the city’s housing law barring discrimination in city housing projects. Attempts to write such a clause into the housing law were spearheaded by a Committee on Democracy in Housing, composed of representatives of various racial and religious organizations in the community.
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