A former Dallas Housing Authority tenant claimed the agency discriminated against her. Now, they're paying her $500,000.
As part of the agreement, the tenant can't ever sue the Dallas Housing Authority or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over the ordeal that saw her put out on the street.The Dallas Housing Authority is coughing up $500,000 to one of its former tenants after she filed a complaint with the feds, claiming the agency discriminated against her.between her, DHA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development .
The Fair Housing Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act all prohibit housing discrimination on the basis of disability. Refusing a reasonable accommodation, such as by moving someone who can’t walk up stairs to the ground floor, is doing just that, according to HUD.
HUD found that DHA also retaliated against the tenant after she requested the first-floor apartment. That’s when DHA stopped accepting her rent payments, eventually evicting the tenant and leaving her homeless. Under the agreement, DHA has a few deadlines it will have to meet. In the next couple of months, DHA will have to make changes such as creating a spreadsheet to track reasonable accommodation requests and choosing a disability rights coordinator. These will then be reviewed by HUD, which will decide if any more changes are necessary.
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