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Federal housing officials and service providers from across the country attended the first-ever summit on housing for LGBT elders at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 7.

As the government prepares a first-ever study of housing discrimination against gays, the issue is complex: how do you design a study to make an applicant’s sexual orientation or gender identity as obvious as race and color?