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A Michigan landlord recently agreed to settle a discrimination claim based on familial status for allegedly denying housing to the mother of a teenager.
The complaint, filed with the assistance of the Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan, claimed that the landlord showed the prospect a unit over a storefront, but then refused to rent it to her after discovering that the prospect had a 15-year-old son.
The Justice Department recently accused the owner and managers of a 126-space mobile home park in Illinois of violating fair housing law by discriminating against African Americans and families with children.
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced a major settlement agreement to resolve allegations of harassment and intimidation of mainly Spanish-speaking immigrant residents in nearly 1,800 units in 49 buildings in New York City.
The Justice Department recently announced that a Texas community has agreed to pay $317,000 to settle a fair housing lawsuit alleging discrimination against persons of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent.
The owner and management company of a Kansas City, Mo., community recently agreed to pay $20,000 to resolve allegations they illegally refused to grant the request of a resident with disabilities to have a live-in caretaker.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan recently sent a letter to the Inkster Housing Commission to halt the eviction proceedings against a pregnant woman facing eviction because she reported incidents of domestic violence to police.
The owner and manager of a 22-unit apartment complex in Westchester County, N.Y., have agreed to pay $92,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing them of housing discrimination against African Americans, according to an announcement by Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
A Michigan landlord recently agreed to pay $20,000 to settle allegations of discrimination based on familial status against a mother and her two children, according to an announcement by the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan.
The Justice Department recently announced court approval of a fair housing settlement in which the owners and operators of a 902-unit community in Reno, Nev., will pay $167,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging discrimination against persons with disabilities who use assistance animals.
Officials in a New Jersey township have voted to approve a settlement in a controversial fair housing case, only weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court was due to hear arguments in the case, according to news reports.
At issue is whether the Fair Housing Act (FHA) bans discrimination based on disparate impact—that is, practices that have a discriminatory effect on protected classes, even if there’s no intent to discriminate.
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