February 2011: Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that an Alabama community owner and his employees agreed to pay more than $15,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming that they violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by making discriminatory statements against African-American...
February 2011: HUD continues to let the public know about its initiative to ensure equal access of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to its programs, according to a recent blog posting by Kenneth J. Carroll, Director of HUD’s Fair Housing Assistance Program Division,...
January 2011: Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a $1.25 million settlement with the owner and managers of a 196-unit Alabama community to resolve allegations that it violated fair housing law by refusing to grant a resident’s requests for a reasonable accommodation. The...
January 2011: Earlier this month, HUD proposed new regulations aimed at prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in its core housing programs. “This is a fundamental issue of fairness,” HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said in a statement. “We...
