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DOJ settles race and familial status housing discrimination lawsuit

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2010

The Department of Justice, the Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as various state, city, and county civil rights agencies - often assisted by fair housing testers - continue to seek out and file cases alleging discrimination in housing across the country

What should you look for in reasonable accommodation requests

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2010

As I have discussed in prior posts, federal and state fair housing and anti-discrimination laws are designed to ensure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to access and enjoy their homes

April is fair housing month

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2010

Forty-two years ago, in April 1968, the Fair Housing Act ("FHA") became law

Should management conciliatesettle the complaint?

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2010

As a part of every fair housing action, the investigator assigned to the case ALWAYS asks if management wants to settle (or conciliate) the complaint

A few words on retaliation

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 12 2010

In our fair housing world, retailiation is against the law

Just how quickly should management respond to accommodation requests?

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 13 2010

Earlier today I did a presentation concerning steps professional apartment management companies can (and indeed should) take to avoid fair housing complaints

Service animals

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 27 2010

More and more professional apartment management companies receive requests for service or companion animals

Just what is familial status?

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 25 2010

If you have read this blog (and really, who in the professional apartment management business has NOT been reading the blog), you know that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of familial status

Just how many fair housing complaints have been filed? 10,552

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2010

In the year 2010, it seems shocking to some that blatant discrimination in housing would still be taking place

More on source of income as a protected class

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 20 2010

At first glance, the protected classes sound simple enough