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Discrimination and the Roma Community 2014
This is another everyday example of the sort of direct discrimination the Roma community faces in renting a flat
when all that people see is the fact that they are Roma.
9.
Murcia.
Housing.
Direct discrimination.
A Roma family signed a one-year renewable lease with a real estate
agency. When they moved in, they found out that the neighbours had called the owner to tell her that she had
rented her flat to “Gypsies” and that they were worried and that she should get rid of them.
After several phone calls, the owner of the flat came to face the neighbours and defend the Roma family.
This is a typical example of discrimination in the area of housing which many members of the Roma community
are still suffering despite its prohibition by Directive 2000/43/EC and Spanish law.