• "Tenants who depend on income other than traditional employment wages face particularized discrimination on the private rental market...Rhode Islanders find themselves shut out of housing opportunities, despite being able and willing to pay."

• "With a voucher, participating tenants should be able to afford roughly 34% of the apartments advertised online each day around the state. In actuality, discrimination narrows the share of housing opportunities closer to 7%."

• "Tenants who financially rely on child support, alimony, Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and housing crisis assistance programs...all risk losing out by virtue of their income’s source, rather than dollar value."

• "Rhode Island will build a brighter future by ensuring fairer housing for all of its residents, in all of its communities."

• "Our research suggests that families who do try to 'move to opportunity' encounter frequent discrimination"

• "63% of [housing providers] would not consider a tenant with a voucher, though it covered the rent in full....some providers offered specific reasons for denials, including concerns about lead certification and administrative delays. Others gave little explanation, or simply hung up."

• "Among the affordable listings we recorded, 6.4% explicitly discouraged voucher holders from applying."

• "Some municipalities, including Foster, Little Compton, New Shoreham, Scituate, and West Greenwich, registered virtually no affordable units for rent during the two-week monitoring period."

• "Source of income discrimination is real and pervasive in Rhode Island"

- from our joint report with SouthCoast Fair Housing: "It's About the Voucher," Source of Income Discrimination in Rhode Island