Non-Profit Fair Housing Group Files Suit Against Publisher Of Allegedly Discriminatory Classified Ads Against Families With Children

According to a press release from the National Fair Housing Alliance:

• The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and its member organization Fair Housing Council of Central California (FHCCC) [last week] announced a housing discrimination lawsuit against the nation’s largest classified advertisement publisher, American Classifieds, LLC for publishing housing ads that state children are not allowed.

• It is illegal to discriminate against families with children in housing. In their lawsuit, NFHA and FHCCC allege that American Classifieds published discriminatory housing advertisements in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act and California’s Fair Housing and Employment Act. NFHA filed the lawsuit after a year-long investigation that uncovered over 60 discriminatory advertisements in 17 of the states where American Classifieds does business.

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• Since 1996, American Classifieds has resolved similar discrimination complaints in Boise, Idaho, Louisville, Kentucky, and Merritt Island, Florida for publishing illegal housing advertisements. Yet that has not stopped the company from continuing to print them.

For the entire press release, see American Classifieds Sued for Discriminating Against Families with Children (National Fair Housing Alliance Investigation Uncovers Advertisements Discriminating Against Families with Children, Other Protected Groups in 17 States).

For more on this case from the National Fair Housing Alliance:

• View the Case Summary,
• View the Complaint/Lawsuit,
• View the map showing cities where allegedly discriminatory ads were found,
• View examples of allegedly discriminatory ads.