Exhibit VII-2b.
If You Have Experienced Housing Discrimination, Did You Do Any of the Following?
(multiple responses allowed)
North Chicago
Waukegan
Number of
Respondents
Percentage of
respondents who
have experienced
discrimination
(n = 6)
Number of
Respondents
Percentage of
respondents who
have experienced
discrimination
(n = 18)
Contacted a lawyer
0
0%
1
6%
Contacted a housing or non-profit
organization
1
17%
2
11%
Contacted my local government
0
0%
2
11%
Contacted Lake County
0
0%
1
6%
Contacted HUD
1
17%
1
6%
Prefer not to answer
3
50%
11
61%
Other
1
17%
6
33%
No response
0
0%
0
0%
Source: Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc.
For those Lake County respondents who did not take any action (85), the three most
commonly cited reasons were “Would not make any difference,” “Didn’t think I would be
able to prove discrimination,” and “Didn’t know where to report the information.”
In North Chicago, of the six survey respondents who did not take action when they
experienced discrimination, half indicated that they did not know where to report the
information. Of note as well is that 33 percent of the respondents stated that they were
afraid of retaliation. In Waukegan, the most commonly identified reason for not taking
any action was that the respondent thought they would not be able to prove the
discrimination. This was followed by respondents stating that reporting the
discrimination would not make any difference.
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APPLIED REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS, INC.
LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS