Massachusetts AG Pursues Efforts Against Housing Discrimination

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office has recently issued news releases in connection with its efforts targeting housing discrimination:

• AG Coakley Obtains Consent Judgment Against Springfield Landlord Accused of Housing Discrimination (alleged unlawful discrimination against prospective tenants because they sought to use public assistance housing vouchers to rent units),

• AG Coakley Settles Housing Discrimination Case Against Greenfield Housing Authority (settlement with landlord resolving claims that it improperly denied requests by a tenant with disabilities to treat expenses for the care of her service animal as deductible under the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program),

• AG Martha Coakley Sues Malden Landlords for Housing Discrimination (filed a housing discrimination complaint that alleges that landlord violated state antidiscrimination laws by refusing to rent to prospective tenants with a child under the age of six years old because it would have created an obligation to abate lead paint in the rental unit),

• AG Coakley’s Office Obtains Consent Judgment Against Arlington Landlords in Housing Discrimination and Lead Paint Case (obtained a consent judgment against two Arlington landlords resolving claims that they discriminated against a pregnant tenant and her husband by refusing to renew their lease because they did not want to de-lead the apartment after their child was born).