Missouri Apartment Manager Settles HUD Housing Discrimination Charges Of Making Eviction Threats To Families With Children

From the Department of Housing and Urban Development:

• The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [last month] announced a $170,000 settlement with managers of a St. Louis apartment complex for alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act. Seven families claimed the managers of the Ridge Crest Apartments subjected them to stricter community rules than residents without children and/or retaliated against them for exercising their fair housing rights. [...] Management at Ridge Crest Apartments routinely threatened tenants with eviction for allowing their children to play outside unsupervised and at least one tenant was unlawfully evicted.

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• Under the [HUD] settlement agreement, Ridge Crest's management will pay $83,000 to the seven families and establish a $15,000 fund for any additional victims. The property will also spend $72,000 over the next two years to create an after-school program for children who live at the complex.

The apartment management applied their policy on unsupervised children to anyone under 18 years of age, according to the HUD press release. For more, see HUD Settles Discrimination Complaints Against Managers Of St. Louis Apartment Complex.

The HUD Housing Discrimination Complaint Form is available for download. For more on housing discrimination from HUD, see Fair Housing--It's Your Right, on the HUD website. Complaints must be filed within one year after an alleged violation.