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The Hidden Costs of a Housing Discrimination Case

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The Hidden Costs of a Housing Discrimination Case

Our recent theme on the blog has been familial status discrimination. My first article on the topic delved into age-related rules that are commonly used by landlords and gave some guidelines on which rules to eliminate and which need to be revised to comply with Fair Housing law. My most recent article was about a property manager who tried to keep residents with children separated from those without children. Her intent was to keep the children in a safer part of the property and to keep noise levels down for residents without children. The fact patterns in both articles were...

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