ADA FHA General
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Weapons of Mass Confusion – meet the ADA and FHA.
The last ADA / FHA headline that reached my email in 2017 was about a woman in Florida who complained that her “service dog” was not allowed at the pool by her condominium association. It was not an unusual story, but it summed up the way the ADA and FHA, both individually and together have… Continue reading
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Good news and a sobering reminder about “sober homes” and the FHA
The Department of Justice and Housing and Urban Development have just issued a guidance document concerning sober homes and other types of group living arrangements. It should help provide some clarity to cities and towns still wrestling with issues related to group living after decades of litigation. At the same, however, the document reminds us of… Continue reading
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Good news for the Fair Housing Act: TWC puts a dent in dialing for dollars
I’ve written before about the dialing for dollars phenomenon in Fair Housing Act claims (click here) and about how cheap standing facilitates litigation aimed more at profit than progress (click here). There is good news on both fronts from the Texas Workforce Commission, which recently dismissed several FHA complaints because the organization that filed them,… Continue reading
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Abusive ADA Litigation – the answer is local, not legal
Tens of millions of dollars are wasted each year on litigation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The money is wasted because instead of going directly to improvements that make businesses more accessible, the money goes to lawyers. Diverting money from remediation to litigation is the real tragedy of so called “drive-by” lawsuits. . Every… Continue reading