BGL celebrates Truthful Housing Month and welcomes the battle to finish discrimination in housing, as promised by the Truthful Housing Act. – Cyber Tech

This April, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is proud to commemorate 56 years of the Truthful Housing Act and have a good time Truthful Housing Month. Our passionate crew of attorneys problem all method of housing discrimination, combating for shoppers who face discrimination in housing due to race, incapacity, faith, sexual orientation, gender id, familial standing, and socioeconomic standing. Our shoppers are each organizations targeted on ending housing discrimination and people trying to proper the wrongs they’ve confronted. BGL’s distinguished civil rights document contains landmark victories in truthful housing instances.

We at the moment signify the Nationwide Truthful Housing Alliance and truthful housing teams throughout the nation in a lawsuit in opposition to Financial institution of America and Safeguard Properties Administration, LLC, for sustaining foreclosed-upon houses in white neighborhoods in higher situation than these in Black and Latino neighborhoods.

In one other case, the groundbreaking Thompson v. HUD, BGL labored with the ACLU of Maryland and Authorized Protection Fund to acquire over $1 billion price of housing vouchers, together with mobility counseling, to hundreds of Baltimore residents, permitting them to maneuver out of segregated communities and into communities of alternative all through Central Maryland. Thompson v. HUD is basically thought-about one of the essential truthful housing instances in current many years.

For over 25 years, Brown, Goldstein & Levy additionally supplied authorized companies to Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. (BNI), a former non-profit group with a mission to get rid of discrimination within the provision of housing alternatives. By our illustration of BNI, we obtained the primary judgment within the nation beneath the design and development necessities of the Truthful Housing Amendments Act in the Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. v. Rommel Builders and LOB, Inc. sequence of instances. Brown, Goldstein & Levy efficiently litigated over 30 instances all through our relationship with BNI, successful thousands and thousands of {dollars} for BNI’s improvement fund and serving to to additional truthful housing within the Baltimore area.

Right this moment, as discrimination has turn out to be much less apparent however stays simply as insidious, Brown, Goldstein & Levy continues to make use of modern authorized instruments and techniques to realize the purpose of equal housing alternative for all. These instruments and techniques embrace pursuing disparate influence discrimination claims, difficult discriminatory zoning ordinances and race-based house value determinations, and looking for justice for the communities and municipalities harmed by predatory lending. Although the Truthful Housing Act’s promise of truthful housing for all isn’t but a actuality for each particular person who name the USA house, we gained’t cease combating till it’s.

Be taught extra about BGL’s efforts combating housing discrimination right here.