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Over the past three years, housing discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community has increased 45.8%, according to 2025 Real Estate Report released Thursday by the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance.
The trade group has roughly 4,000 members and 304 of them participated in the annual survey. Among the respondents, 188 self-identity as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Additionally, 47.9% of respondents reported being parents, with 34.9% reporting that they have an LGBTQ+ child and 36.3% reporting that they have a heterosexual child.
In 2025, one-third of responding alliance members reported seeing an increase in housing discrimination since 2022.
The most common source of this observed behavior came from real estate professionals discriminating against prospective homebuyers, with 22.2% of respondents choosing this as a type of discrimination visible over the past three years.
Other common forms of discrimination included legal forms that needed signatures inadequately representing the life experiences of potential homebuyers (17.8%); agents discriminating against prospective tenants (15.7%); and sellers discriminating against prospective buyers (14.4%).
Closely tied to the uptick in discrimination is that parents of heterosexual children were 10.4% more likely to believe their children would have equal access to homeownership than those with LGBTQ+ children.
Additionally, LGBTQ+ parents were 25.9% more likely to believe that their heterosexual child would have equal access to homeownership as compared to an LGBTQ+ parent with an LGBTQ+ child.
Parents of heterosexual children were also more likely to believe in their child’s future access to financial stability (23.1%) and fair housing (71.4%) than parents of LGBTQ+ children.
Based on the data, it appears that some of this pessimism is coming from the potential impact of Trump administration policies.
Nearly 60% of LGBTQ+ respondents said they believe the government’s anti-transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming (anti-TGX) policies will cause more TGX individuals and families with a TGX child to relocate.
Additionally, LGBTQ+ respondents were almost 25% more likely than heterosexual respondents to believe that non-TGX LGBTQ+ people, or families with a non-TGX LGBTQ+ child, would be forced to move.
“LGBTQ+ people are facing the greatest hostility since the AIDS epidemic because of the current administration’s anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-TGX executive orders along with its efforts to end diversity, equity and including (DEI),” Justin Ziegler, the national president of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance, said a statement.
“We recognize that more education is needed as those in the LGBTQ+ community had a different view than heterosexuals about numerous homeownership-related issues. We are also troubled to learn that our members believe that real estate professionals were the leading cause of record-high housing discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community.
“Our industry has a lot more work to do to root out discrimination and ensure that the LGBTQ+ community has equal access to fair housing and equal access to homeownership.”
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