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HUD CHARGES PUERTO RICO CONDO ASSOCIATION WITH DISABILITY
DISCRIMINATION. HUD has charged a Puerto Rico condominium
association with violating the Fair Housing Act for repeatedly
refusing to grant accessible parking spaces to a couple,
both of whom have physical disabilities. Read
the charge.
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HUD BRINGS DISCRIMINATION CHARGE FOR MINNESOTA COMPLEX'S
EXCLUSION OF SERVICE DOGS. In a charge brought on
behalf of Fair Housing of the Dakotas, HUD alleges that
the owners and managers of a 24-unit complex outside Fargo,
ND, violated the Fair Housing Act by discouraging applications
from persons with a common breed of service dog. The charge
alleges that an agent of the property told a bona fide
applicant and a person posing as an applicant they could
not reside at the complex with a 37-pound Labrador mix
which each said assisted them with a disability. Read
the charge.
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HUD CHARGES MANAGEMENT AND TWO MANAGEMENT AGENTS
OF AN APARTMENT COMPLEX WITH VIOLATIONS OF THE FAIR HOUSING
ACT. HUD has charged the management and two management
agents of West Side Homes located in Oswego, Kansas with
violations of the Fair Housing Act. The two management
agents made discriminatory statements against families
with children, and discouraged a single mother with disability
from applying for an accessible apartment. West Side Homes’
management agents repeatedly told the mother that West
Side Homes was a senior housing complex, which it was
not, and did not allow families with children to live
there.
Read
the charge.
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PUERTO RICO CONDO ASSOCIATION MUST PAY $17,000 FOR
DENIAL OF ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACE. An administrative
law judge has ordered a Puerto Rico condominium association
to pay $17,000 to a family denied a parking space necessary
to accommodate a son’s disability. Under the consent order,
all persons active in the management of the condominium
association also agree to attend fair housing training
and submit to HUD a reasonable-accommodation policy within
30 days. In February, HUD charged the association with
violating the Fair Housing Act for refusing to assign
the family a parking space which would allow easy transfer
of the son from his wheelchair into and out of the family
minivan.
Read the Consent Order.
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