What's New in Fair Housing?

Information by State  Print version   Did You Know? Fair Housing is in the news around the country. Check out the selected fair housing news articles below. From local6.com: Apt. Complex Discrimination Claim By Renter Leads To Charges From Gazette.net: HUD promote fair housing at grade school From Kansas City Star: Speakers to honor fair housing act From Las Vegas Review Journal: Law against housing discrimination marks 40th year on the books From Marin Independent Journal: Nancy Kenyon: 40 years after Fair Housing Act passed, the fight continues From RISMedia.com: Fair Housing Month - Real Estate Associations Unite, Organize Mock Trial From Montananewstation.com: Late fair housing advocate honored in Billings

• 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.”
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• 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.
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• 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.
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