Fair Housing Act News

Feds: Mississippi Rental Company Fined for Discrimination

JACKSON, Miss (AP) — The owners of a Mississippi apartment rental company have agreed to pay damages to four prospective tenants who helped uncover a pattern of racial discrimination by their employee that violated federal law, the U.S. Justice Department …

Commentary: Will HUD’s Disparate Impact Rule Have Say in Ratemaking?

Despite the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which reserved the regulation of the “business of insurance” to the states, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has given itself the ability to upset and invalidate long-standing underwriting and ratemaking practices for homeowners’ …

Disabled Vet Gets $20k in Utah Service Dog Dispute

A disabled Gulf War veteran is getting a $20,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit claiming he was repeatedly fined for keeping a companion dog in his Park City, Utah, condo. The lawsuit claims the Fox Point at Redstone Association, a …