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Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its largest-ever disability-based housing discrimination settlement, which resolves allegations that a Texas-based developer and affiliated entities discriminated on the basis of disability in the design and construction of multifamily housing complexes throughout the United States. The complaint alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA’s) design and construction standards and ...
A Boston-based real estate management company, its property manager, and a multifamily housing owner have been sued for violating the state’s antidiscrimination law for allegedly refusing to rent to a recipient of a federal housing subsidy, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced earlier this month. The complaint alleged that the defendants refused to rent to a prospective tenant because he intended to use a Section 8 affordable housing voucher to pay for the re...
A Cincinnati landlord agreed to the entry of an $855,000 civil judgment against him, after admitting that he violated the Fair Housing Act by sexually harassing his female tenants, according to a recent announcement by the Justice Department.
Q: Does the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Arizona v. United States have fair housing implications?
A: The latest ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the battle over immigration reform—Arizona v. United States—didn’t address housing restrictions. But the decision is likely to affect courts reviewing the dozens of...
A condominium association in Puerto Rico recently reached a $1 million agreement with HUD to settle allegations that the property’s inoperative elevators violated the federal fair housing law based on disability.
On June 18, 2012, a Missouri woman was sentenced to 63 months in prison for her role in the vandalism and arson of a biracial man’s mobile home in Independence, Mo., the Department of Justice announced.
In early May, the owner and managers of three residential buildings in Manhattan agreed to pay more than $2 million to resolve allegations that they discriminated on the basis of sex and subjected numerous female residents to severe, unwelcome, and pervasive sexual harassment. This is the largest recovery ever in a sexual harassment suit brought by the United States under the Fair Housing Act.
The owner and managers of a 56-unit, HUD-assisted townhome complex in Nebraska recently agreed to pay $22,500 to a former resident to settle a HUD complaint.
The owner of a 96-unit community in Rockland County, N.Y., recently settled a federal lawsuit, alleging discrimination against African-American apartment seekers in violation of the Fair Housing Act, according to an announcement by Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
A Grand Valley State University student recently filed a complaint in federal court over her request to keep Blanca, a guinea pig, in student housing, reports Courthouse News.
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