HUD recently charged a New Hampshire real estate agent and his company with illegally discriminating against families with children. Under the Fair Housing Act, it’s unlawful to deny housing because someone has children or to make statements that indicate a limitation on renting to someone...
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...
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...
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.
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...
