Civil Rights-Discrimination-Definition of Single-Family House Under the Fair Housing Act Single-Family Exemption-Exemption Depends Upon Both the Design and the Use of the Home
THE plaintiff had commenced a Civil Rights case, asserting a claim under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §3603. The plaintiff had rented a “lower apartment” at the subject house. An upper apartment was “vacant and uninhabitable.” The defendant landlord had allegedly advised the plaintiff that the house was a multi-family house, that he would be renting only the downstairs apartment, and that the plaintiff would be the only tenant in the house for at least a few months while the upstairs apartment was being renovated “to accommodate a second tenant.”
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