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Legal Services Firm Files Housing Discrimination Suits Alleging Bias Against Families With Kids; Landlords Accused Of Failure To De-Lead Apartments

By r morris

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In Worcester, Massachusetts, the nonprofit legal services firm Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts (LACCM) last month filed two housing discrimination lawsuits on behalf of tenants alleging unlawful housing practices by steering parents of minor children away from apartments, or refusing to show them apartments in an attempt to avoid the cost of remediating potential lead-based

Full post as published by The Home Equity Theft Reporter on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).

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