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...
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...
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.
There’s an update to a case we reported in the November 2011 issue of Fair Housing Coach: A federal appeals court has dismissed a fair housing case filed against an online roommate-matching service, Roommates.com, ruling that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) does not apply to shared...
The owner of a Pennsylvania apartment complex recently agreed to pay $15,000 to settle claims that the development’s on-site manager discriminated against families with children. Last summer, HUD charged the owner and manager with charging families higher rent when they have children and...
Last month, the Justice Department announced a $20,000 consent decree that resolves a lawsuit alleging that a Utah condominium association and its management company violated federal fair housing law by refusing to grant a resident’s request for a reasonable accommodation.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a controversial fair housing case after all. The case, highlighted in the January 2012 Fair Housing Coach, centered on disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). While everyone agrees that the FHA bans intentional discrimination...
A company that owns and operates multifamily rental housing in Evanston, Ill., has backed away from plans to limit occupancy in one of its buildings to only Northwestern University students, according to the Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs, an advocacy group that filed a...