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John Fraser: Having a mental health disability to accessing housing. In recent research that
CERA did, we looked at the prevalence of discrimination against people who have an identifiable mental
health disability and found out that they were of all the profiles that we were testing
for in terms of discrimination, they were the most likely to experience discrimination.
In about a third of the calls that they made, they experienced substantial discrimination.
And they were very often subjected to very outward, direct, blatant discrimination where
the property manager or the superintendent or landlord would be asking about the medication
they were using. Are they dangerous?
Clearly this was a type of discrimination that was more likely than many of the other
types of discrimination we tested, that the landlords didn't feel that it was a problem
to refuse people if they had a perceived mental illness.