A federal housing agency is accusing a western Wisconsin landlord of refusing to rent a rural house to a single mother because there was no man to live with her “to shovel the snow,” but the property owner said Saturday that she was simply watching out for the womans welfare.

“Fairness dictates, and the Fair Housing Act requires, that housing decisions not be based on outmoded stereotypes of people’s `place’ in our society,”

via Journal Times.

The case of a senior citizen battling her condo to keep her emotional-service-dog is moving to federal court.

via MiamiHerald.com.

The agency has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and families are arbitrarily excluded from some housing opportunities in the private sector, and wants to ensure they have the opportunity to compete fairly for agency funds.

via Courthouse News Service.

The suit charged that Harry Norman and Sherrouse, metro Atlanta real estate agents, advertised a “no-child policy” at a unit for sale

via The Marietta Daily Journal

A Postville landlord has filed discrimination lawsuits against the city, the city clerk and two council members, alleging that their actions devastated his business.

via The Des Moines Register.

Predatory lending aimed at racially segregated minority neighborhoods led to mass foreclosures that fueled the U.S. housing crisis, according to a new study published in the American Sociological Review

via Reuters.

Mary Ellen Hintz has not made it any secret that she has Stage IV breast cancer. She is bald from the chemotherapy treatments that started in June, but has largely carried on with life as usual.

So she was surprised when she went to renew her apartment lease at The Sanctuary of Lake Villa and was told her disease might pose a problem.

via chicagotribune.com.

The 3rd Circuit on Thursday struck down ordinances in Hazleton, Pa., aimed at blocking illegal immigrants from getting jobs or renting apartments. The court said the regulations “undermined” the federal government’s careful balance between curbing illegal immigration and preventing employers and landlords from discriminating against anyone who looks foreign.

via Courthouse News Service.

A legal battle between the City of Saint Paul and a handful of landlords could force the city to pay millions.

It all centers around code enforcement.

The city says it was trying to make sure housing is safe and sanitary. Landlords who are part of the suit say the city went too far, hurting their rental business, hurting people who need affordable housing.

Twelve St. Paul landlords claim the city’s aggressive code enforcement forced them to make expensive unnecessary repairs. They say the enforcement also forced them to cut back or sell out and that hurt affordable housing in St. Paul.

via KSTP TV – Minneapolis and St. Paul.

A convicted molester is losing his house to foreclosure, but is blocked by county law from moving to a different house a block away.

via MiamiHerald.com.

[Which will result in an unworkable law for owners]