Landlords need to understand laws against discrimination
July 22nd, 2009
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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, I 
cited the following fact:
cited the following fact:… a report that had just been issued by The National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity which stated, among other things, “discrimination continues to be endemic, intertwined into the very fabric of our lives. Ironically, even though more Americans than ever are living in diverse communities, residential segregation remains high……there are at least 4 million fair housing violations in our country every year.”
Now, in the past 24 hours, I have had information on 3 different discrimination lawsuits, filed by The Department of Justice, HUD and The National Fair Housing Alliance, come across my desk. Giving landlords the benefit of the doubt, I would say with so many violations and the number of suits being filed, there have to be a lot of landlords out there that don’t understand what constitutes discrimination in many cases. This is really no excuse, not only is it just wrong to do it, it’s also illegal and will get costly for you.
Below is a synopsis of the suits just filed (as a reminder, these are newly filed suits so they are allegations at this point and a court has not yet ruled on it). Read more…
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