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Justice Department Settles with Kentucky Apartment Complex Involving Allegations of Disabiilty-based Housing Discrimination

The Justice Department today announced a settlement of its lawsuit against the owners, developers, architect and civil engineers of Park Place Apartments, a 276-unit complex in Louisville, Ky., resolving allegations that those involved in the design and construction of the complex discriminated against people with disabilities. Under the settlement, which must still be approved by a federal district judge in Louisville, the defendants will pay all costs related to making the apartment complex accessible to persons with disabilities and pay $275,000 to compensate 29 individuals who have been harmed by the inaccessible housing. [...]

Justice Department Resolves Lawsuit Alleging Disability Discrimination in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced this week a settlement of its lawsuit alleging that Equity Homes Inc, PBR LLC, BBR LLC and Shane Hartung violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by failing to provide features that would make their multi-family housing developments in Sioux Falls accessible to people with disabilities as required by the Fair Housing Act. [...]

Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against TK Properties LLC for Violating the Fair Housing Act

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Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against TK Properties LLC for Violating the Fair Housing Act

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced this week that it has filed a lawsuit against TK Properties L.L.C., [...]

“For Rent: No Kids!”

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 [...]

Landlords need to understand laws against discrimination

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

I would think that anyone that owns rental property today would be aware of of the fact that it is illegal to discriminate when it comes to housing, but at times I wonder.  I say that because in a post I wrote in a post late last year about [...]

Fair Housing

By: Dennis Norman

After writing a post about the The Fair Housing Act for a blog for the real estate consumer I realized there is information in that article that could be very valuable to the real estate investor as well.   While the focus of the article  was a report that had just been issued by The National Commission [...]