Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO)

The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) administers and enforces federal laws and establishes policies that make sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their choice. Learn more about FHEO.

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	HUD brings charge in South Dakota accessible design and construction case. HUD has charged the developer, builder, and site designer of a South Dakota apartment complex with violating the Fair Housing Act for failing to design and construct multifamily buildings with basic adaptive features to allow use by people with disabilities. HUD’s investigation of a complaint brought by Fair Housing of the Dakotas, a non-profit advocacy organization, found that East Briar Estates, a 32-unit, four-building complex in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, certified for first occupancy in 1996, was designed and built with inaccessible sidewalks and garages, narrow interior doors, and insufficient clearance space in the bathrooms, among other violations.Read the Charge
	HUD charges Alabama landlords for forcing white couple to move after black neighbors visited. HUD has filed discrimination charges against the owners of a house in Tallassee, Alabama, who allegedly forced their white tenants to move after the owners saw the couple talking with black neighbors in the front yard. According to the charge, the white tenant recorded the owner saying, “If y’all want to have African-Americans to visit, we’re going to ask you to move…” The owner also reportedly later told the couple, “You should live in the projects if you want to interact with those people…I don’t care if you made a complaint to HUD, you have to move.” Read the Charge
	HUD charges the Niagara Falls housing authority,New York, with violation of the Fair Housing Act based on disability. Niagara Falls Housing Authority violated the Fair Housing Act because it refused to make a Uniform Federal Standards Accessible parking space to Mr. Byron Jones, who has a physical disability. Read the charge
	HUD charges HUD-funded SECTION 202 development Burton Towers Housing Development Fund Company, a HUD-funded Section 202 development in Newburgh, NY, and its former manager are charged with a violation of the Fair Housing Act based on disability. Ms. Icelene Barrett, an elderly woman with physical disabilities, was refused an accessible parking space closer to her apartment. Read the charge

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