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Co-op City docked $85,000 for not allowing residents to keep emotional-support dogs in their apartments
(BRONX, N.Y., May 16, 2012)
-- Federal housing regulators are giving Co-op City a ruff time for not allowing residents to keep emotional support dogs.
RiverBay Corp., the company that manages the sprawling Bronx complex, was docked more than $85,000 this month for denying two clinically depressed residents their pets as treatment.
"Before I got my dog, I would come home and just go to bed," said Kisha Maddox, owner of JoeJoe, a Maltese. "My life was nothing. Now I love to come home and walk JoeJoe in the community."
Co-op City has a strict 'no pets' policy. But Alexander Fernandez, an administrative law judge, ruled May 7 that RiverBay violated the Fair Housing Act when it refused to make an exception for the owner of Figgy Newton, a Chihuahua-Whippet mix.
FULL STORY at nydailynews.com
3 women sue White Plains YWCA staffers, claim civil rights abuse
(WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 15, 2012)
-- Three former YWCA residents are accusing staffers of violating their civil rights and retaliating against them when they complained about alleged abuses.
Barbara Griffiths, Judy Johnson and Margaret Wall accused Lori Stanlick, the YWCA’s associate executive director of housing and clinical services, and other staffers of race, national origin, disability and income-source discrimination in three federal civil rights lawsuits filed by the former residents. All three women’s court filings include determinations from the Westchester County Human Rights Commission indicating that they have probable cause to sue based on the commission’s conclusion that the YWCA staff violated the county’s Fair Housing Law.
Barbara Griffiths, 63, lived at the YWCA residence at 69 N. Broadway from 1999 to 2010 and she claims that Stanlick would not allow her to move into a nonsmoking section of the residence because of her race and Jamaican background.
“I saw it as a failure to be thoughtful about us as single, struggling women who needed the support of this organization,” Griffiths said Monday about her and her former neighbors’ complaints.
FULL STORY at lohud.com
Few housing bias complaints documented in Clark County
(SPRINGFIELD, Ohio., May 14, 2012)
-- In the past five years, 18 charges of illegal housing discrimination in Clark County were substantiated by investigations.
But sources disagree about whether discrimination here is as widespread as federal estimates suggest it is nationally.
Discrimination is more than a question of race. In Clark County, for example, most recorded cases of discrimination involve physical or mental disability.
According to studies by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, fair housing complaints — of which there were 34 in Clark County the past five years — represent about one percent of actual discrimination.
FULL STORY at springfieldnewssun.com
Boynton Beach to pay $100,000 for disabilities act violations
(BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., May 14, 2012)
-- The city will spend $100,135 to come into compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, commissioners will hear Tuesday night .
A review last summer uncovered scores of cases where the federal government concluded the city didn't comply with federal rules both in the design of the city hall complex and the way the city helps people take advantage of federal programs.
They ranged from not providing paperwork in other languages to having ramps and counters handicapped people couldn't reach, according to a staff memo proposing the commission, at Tuesday night's regular meeting, authorize a "voluntary compliance agreement" with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's office of Fair Housing and Economic Opportunity.
FULL STORY at palmbeachpost.com
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