WASHINGTON –The Justice Department today announced that Roger Harris,Hediger Enterprises Inc.,Carroll Management Group,Forum Manor Associates L.P. and Forum Manor LLC have agreed to pay $295,000 in monetary damages and civil penalties to resolve a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging sexual harassment,race and sex discrimination,retaliation and intimidation at Forum Manor Apartments,a federally-subsidized apartment complex in Rolla,Missouri. [...]
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 | WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a $95,000 settlement to resolve a lawsuit alleging that the former manager of Park Towers Apartments in Waterloo,Iowa,sexually harassed female tenants at the complex. The lawsuit alleges that Michael Nieman,the former on-site manager of Park Towers,sexually harassed female tenants in [...] WASHINGTON –The Department of Justice announced late this week that it has filed a lawsuit against the city of New Berlin,Wis.,alleging that the city violated the Fair Housing Act by repeatedly taking action to prevent the construction of an affordable housing development by a private developer,MSP Real Estate Inc. The complaint,[...] The Justice Department today announced a $1.25 million agreement with Warren Properties Inc.,Warren Village (Mobile) Limited Partnership and Frank R. Warren to settle allegations that the defendants violated the Fair Housing Act by refusing to grant a tenant’s requests for a reasonable accommodation. This settlement is the largest ever obtained by the department in [...] The Justice Department today announced that South Dakota property owner TK Properties L.L.C. and one of its principals,Scott Terveen,have agreed to pay $30,000 in monetary damages and civil penalties to settle a Fair Housing Act lawsuit against them. The lawsuit alleges that they discriminated against three families who lived at Lakeport Village Apartments,[...] The Justice Department filed a lawsuit yesterday against a Gulfport,Miss.,newspaper and a landlord and her agent for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against families with children. The lawsuit,filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi,charges that Penny Pincher,a weekly want-ad newspaper distributed along [...]
Settlement Provides $2 Million to African-American Borrowers Who Paid Higher Interest Rates PrimeLending,a national mortgage lender with 168 offices in 32 states at the end of 2009,has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American borrowers between 2006 and 2009. [...] “It is particularly disheartening then that lenders are often the subject of ill considered accusations regarding discrimination,accusations based upon analyses that lack statistical rigor”- Michael Fratantoni,MBA’s Vice President of Research and Economics Dennis Norman This week the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released a paper,“A Review of Statistical Problems in the Measurement [...] The Justice Department today announced a settlement of a lawsuit alleging that those involved in the design and construction of two multifamily housing complexes in Davenport,Iowa,violated the Fair Housing Act. The complexes at issue are Kimberly Ridge Manor and Jersey Ridge Manor. The case began when the Davenport Civil Rights Commission filed fair [...] The Justice Department announced it has filed a lawsuit today in federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging a pattern or practice of violations of the Fair Housing Act by the owner and managers of Forum Manor Apartments,a federally-subsidized apartment complex,for refusing to rent to African-Americans and males,refusing to allow [...] Publishers note:We frequently published news releases having to do with allegations of,or settlements of,Fair Housing violations –the purpose of us doing so is to help educate landlords and heighten awareness of the various ways that a landlord may be violating the Fair Housing Act,even though in many cases there seems [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday,September 22,2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOVCRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today jointly announced an agreement with the owners and managers of Pina’s Mobile Home [...] Dennis Norman Hopefully every landlord that sees the title of this post will immediately know that to run an ad with that title to rent out their property would be in violation of the Fair Housing Laws. Apparently not though unfortunately. According to a recent report by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) there are literally thousands [...] | ||||
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