Housing discrimination

And I'm James Hoyle.

This series is all about housing discrimination case law.

We will review 15 key cases and principles that have guided housing discrimination law over the last decade.

We're calling it the A to Z of housing discrimination case law.

And that's because we're starting with the case of Ackerman-Livingston and Astor communities.

And we're ending with Zed and Hackney London Borough Council.

And Bracking says that one of those things is the public sector equality duty.

Which I think is what society at large would expect from a competent public body as well as from the courts.

I'll just jump right into it.

There are federal and state laws that ban housing discrimination based on many factors.

Discrimination based on gender, race, color, religion, sex or disability.

But there are many other protected classes that people might not know about.

Yeah.

I can imagine there are so many examples of what I'm going to ask about.

What are a few, though, you could say are the ways that people can experience housing discrimination?

So I think a big one is a housing provider is refusing to grant reasonable changes in rules or policies, and that's commonly what we call reasonable accommodation.