The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit alleging an Alabama housing authority violated the Fair Housing Act by intentionally discriminating based on race or color against applicants for housing.
The housing authority denied African American the opportunity to live in overwhelmingly white housing complexes, while steering white applicants away from properties whose residents were predominantly African American, according to the DOJ’s lawsuit. Read on for details.
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