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Longtime Resident Challenges Chicago Housing Authority’s “Stigmatizing” Drug Testing Program
So let me get this straight: You want my tax money to pay for your housing, but when I want to make sure your using that money for housing and not crack, by asking you take a drug test, it's a violation of your civil rights?
CHICAGO – A Chicago man is challenging a controversial policy of the Chicago Housing Authority forcing CHA residents in mixed-income housing developments to undergo annual, humiliating drug testing. Joseph Peery, who lives in the Parkside of Old Town mixed-income housing development on West Division, today asked a federal court in Chicago to block the practice. Under the CHA policy, renters subsidized by CHA are forced to take a drug test every time they renew their lease. Millions of Americans across the nation enjoy federal and state housing benefits including housing vouchers, tenancy in traditional CHA developments and even mortgage subsidies and tax deductions for their mortgage interest, without being subjected to drug testing.
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So let me get this straight: You want my tax money to pay for your housing, but when I want to make sure your using that money for housing and not crack, by asking you take a drug test, it's a violation of your civil rights?