$450,000 Settlement and Significant Injunctive Relief reached by Relman & Colfax in Fair Housing Complaint Against Regional Developer
- At October 04, 2022
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Relman & Colfax represented Ernesto and Corina Zuniga and Housing Equality Center of Pennsylvania in housing discrimination complaints alleging that CM Bucks Landing 120, LLC, and Residential Management (NY), Inc. employed three separate policies that had unlawful disparate impacts on groups protected under the Fair Housing Act. Those were: (1) a policy requiring all adult residents to have a social security number, which has a discriminatory impact based on national origin; (2) over-restrictive occupancy limitations, which have a discriminatory impact based on familial status; and (3) a policy requiring all applicants to certify they have no “criminal history” and a blanket ban on renting to any individual with a felony conviction; which have a discriminatory impact based on race.
Tallahassee Housing Authority vows to assist Orange Avenue tenants after ‘extremely rare’ lawsuit settlement
- At September 20, 2022
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A lawsuit against the Tallahassee Housing Authority (THA) by residents forced out of the Orange Avenue Apartments was dismissed after the agency agreed to bolster its assistance to the former South City residents and settled out of court.
In Friday’s settlement, sent to the Tallahassee Democrat by the housing authority, the agency agreed to 30 stipulations that heavily affect its redevelopment plan and general practices.
Those stipulations include the requirement that THA give residents who relocated because of the redevelopment “first priority” on the newly-built units. Former tenants must be offered units with the same number of bedrooms as their previous unit.
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Landlords try to stop rent control initiative in Florida
- At September 08, 2022
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“For years, renters have been asking this commission to do something about the upcoming emergency we are in right now,” Stephanie Porta, a cofounder of the social justice group Florida Rising, said last month during a commission meeting. “Corporate landlords, real estate investors and developers are raising prices and making record profits while hardworking residents are priced out of their communities.”
The city of Miami Beach in the 1960s and 1970s imposed rent control measures before the Florida law limiting them was passed. The Orange County ordinance would be the first such measure in the state in decades. Rent control measures have passed in California and Oregon, as well as in metro areas like St. Paul, Minnesota, and Portland, Oregon.
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Appraisal with a Black Owner: $472,000, with a White Owner: $750,000.
- At August 26, 2022
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An appraisal company valued the home of a Black family at $472,000. A mortgage lender denied the couple a refinance loan.
Months after that first appraisal, the couple applied for another refinance loan, removed family photos and had a white male colleague — a fellow Johns Hopkins professor — stand in for them. The second appraiser valued the house at $750,000.
“We had to have a conversation with our kids about why we’re pulling down all their drawings,” Dr. Connolly said. “It’s very humiliating to strip yourself of your own home.”
Please see the whole story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/realestate/housing-discrimination-maryland.html
