Facts: The Inclusive Communities Project (ICP), a nonprofit fair housing group in Dallas, went to court alleging that the Town of Flower Mound, Texas, violated the Fair Housing Act by systematically blocking the creation of affordable rental housing. According to ICP, the town refuses to...
Facts: In 1987, HUD awarded the City of Kalamazoo a grant under the Housing Development Grant Program for the construction of a private 150-unit multifamily rental housing development, with 60 units to be reserved for 20 years for occupancy by low-income families. Under the HUD grant...
Facts: In October 2007, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) notified a public housing resident that her lease was being considered for termination for chronic rent delinquency. Following its termination-of-tenancy policy, NYCHA scheduled a hearing on the charges before an...
Facts: The owner of a Section 8 site in Ohio sued HUD for breach of its HAP contract. Ocean View Towers Associates sought damages stemming from HUD's failure to provide the automatic annual rent increases specified in the HAP contract beginning in the contract anniversary year of 2002...
Facts: The owner of a small multifamily housing development in Oregon went to court in 2006 to force the USDA's Rural Housing Service (RHS) to accept prepayment of her site's Section 515 loan. The owner wanted to be free of the rent restrictions under Section 515 and operate at...
Facts: In April 2003, the Philadelphia Housing Authority gave a resident a notice of lease termination. The housing authority said the resident had done three things that violated her lease:
She allowed her son to live with her without the approval of management;
Facts: In March 2002, AHF Community Development, LLC, a nonprofit affordable housing provider, acquired the Bent Creek Apartments in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas with funds from a bond issuance by the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation. AHF claimed in court that the City of...
Facts: After two resident shareholders in a cooperative housing development in Bayside, N.Y., acquired a dog, in violation of the cooperative's no-dogs policy, the development began eviction proceedings. The residents complained of discrimination, seeking to keep the dog as a...
Facts: Trade associations representing cable operators and apartment building owners sued in federal court in Washington, D.C., to overturn an order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banning exclusivity agreements between cable companies and owners of multiple-unit buildings...
Facts: In a fair housing enforcement action, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the companies that owned and managed the Central Park Towers Apartments in Kansas City, Kansas, under Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The suit also individually named a woman who worked for the...
Facts: After police found crack cocaine, powdered cocaine, and drug paraphernalia in a public housing unit, the Housing Authority of Covington issued a notice of eviction to the resident. The resident claimed that she had no knowledge of drugs in her apartment and had not put them there....
Facts: A housing authority terminated Section 8 rental assistance after a voucher holder was involved in a violent altercation with a neighbor. Although the voucher holder had not been convicted of any crime, he had been charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault. Believing the...
