Five housing providers in Chicago are facing lawsuits accusing them of discriminating against people who are deaf. The complaints, filed by Access Living earlier this month, allege that the housing providers violated fair housing law by denying rental options to members of the deaf community...
A Massachusetts real estate brokerage firm recently agreed to implement fair housing training and adopt new antidiscrimination policies to resolve allegations that it discriminated against families with children in housing rentals. The firm will also pay up to $17,500, including $5,000 to the...
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court took up a major case involving the federal Fair Housing Act, which bans housing discrimination “because of” race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability.
An update to the February issue of Fair Housing Coach: As expected, the Supreme Court has agreed to rule on same-sex marriage.
All across the country, there has been an abrupt shift in the laws on same-sex marriage. Last year at this time, same-sex marriage was permitted in only...
HUD recently charged a Coney Island cooperative community with discrimination against a veteran with a psychiatric disability for refusing to let him keep an emotional support animal.
HUD charged the 1,144-unit community, along with the president of its board of directors, with wrongfully...
The Justice Department recently sued a public housing agency that administers the Section 8 voucher program in North Carolina, along with two of its employees, for sexual harassment in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
In early December, the federal court in Michigan ruled a federally assisted housing community was not required to allow use of medical marijuana as a reasonable accommodation under fair housing law.
In early 2013, the resident signed a lease for a townhome in a project-based, Section 8,...
HUD recently ordered a condominium association in Puerto Rico to pay $20,000 in damages plus a $16,000 civil penalty for refusing to allow a resident with disabilities to keep his emotional support animal.
On Nov. 3, the U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia filed an opinion vacating HUD's final rule on Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Discriminatory Effects Standard, commonly referred to as the Disparate Impact Rule. HUD had recently finalized regulations that...
HUD recently announced settlements with two communities—and charges against two others—for alleged discrimination against residents with disabilities. The announcement follows the release of HUD’s latest fair housing report, which shows that more than half of the discrimination...
Earlier this month, the Justice Department sued a West Virginia community, alleging that a maintenance worker and a manager sexually harassed female residents, and that the community’s site manager failed to take appropriate steps when residents complained about the harassment.
The owner and operator of a 500-unit HUD-subsidized apartment complex in Illinois recently agreed to pay $255,000 to settle allegations of disability discrimination and retaliation, according to a recent announcement by HUD.
