Legal Advocacy
State and Federal Court
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Midpenninsula Citizens for Fair Housing vs. Lytton Gardens, Inc., Community Housing Inc., and Carrasco & Associates
A settlement was reached in a fair housing lawsuit filed in 2000 involving violations of architectural design and construction requirements for people with disabilities at the Lytton Courtyard apartment complex in Palo Alto, California, a 51-unit building open to low-income, senior tenants. The lawsuit included intensive multi-year negotiations on detailed retrofit plans to correct illegal access problems. The suit involved both federal and California fair housing laws. In addition to undertaking the retrofit, the building's owner and architect have also agreed to implement policies to ensure disability nondiscrimination in the future, and to pay damages. (2002)
Read about the case in DREDF's 2003 Newsletter
