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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago v. City of Chicago

1:18-cv-03399 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

This action challenges the state of Illinois’ housing practices for alleged failure to comply with federal disability accessibility law. On May 13, 2018, Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, Inc., an Illinois-based disability advocacy nonprofit, sued the City of Chicago in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern District. Plaintiff observed that Chicago had developed and supported affordable housing initiatives (“Affordable Rental Housing Program”) since 1988 with th…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. City of Anoka, Minnesota

0:24-cv-01861 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: May 21, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is about treating calls for emergency services - often in relation to mental health crises - as "nuisance" incidents. On May 21, 2024, the United States filed a lawsuit against the City of Anoka, Minnesota, alleging violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The case was brought by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The United States claimed that since at least 2018, the City discriminated against indiv…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Urban Justice Center Safety Net Project v. City of New York

1:24-cv-08221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case alleging that New York City’s “homeless sweeps” violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. On October 29, 2024, a group of homeless individuals in New York City and the Urban Justice Safety Net Project filed a class action complaint challenging the City’s use of sweeps, also referred to as cleanups, against homeless individuals. The plaintiffs were homeless New Yorkers who have been subjected to homeless sweeps and are at imminent risk of bein…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Warren v. City of Chico

2:21-cv-00640 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

Involuntarily unhoused residents of Chico, California, filed this lawsuit against the City of Chico and the City of Chico Police Department, challenging the City’s ordinances that criminalized homelessness by banning camping and storing personal property in public places. Represented by attorneys from Legal Services of Northern California, on April 8, 2021, eight individuals sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and alleged violations of their rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amend…
PUBLIC HOUSING
LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles

2:20-cv-02291 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is a follow-up to Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, in which advocates for unhoused people successfully pushed the City of Los Angeles to limit its removal of property in encampments in the Skid Row area of the city. LA Alliance for Human Rights, a community group that primarily represents the interests of business owners, homeowners, and property renters, unsuccessfully attempted to intervene in Mitchell and brought this case after that settlement was reached. LA Alliance filed this a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Anoka

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This case concerned a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division investigation that the City of Anoka, Minnesota violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by denying tenants with mental health disabilities an equal opportunity to use the emergency response service On November 7, 2023, the investigation found that the city's "crime free" housing ordinance discouraged people with mental health disabilities from calling emergency response service…
PUBLIC HOUSING
United States v. City of Birmingham

80-cv-70991 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: 1980

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 1984

This case involved the policy and practice of a city in the 1980s that prevented the construction of racially integrated housing. The United States filed this lawsuit against the City of Birmingham (“City”) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, alleging that the City had engaged in a policy and practice that prevented a non-profit corporation from developing racially integrated low-income senior citizen and family housing. The United States alleged that the City’s pra…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Sanders v. HUD

2:88-cv-01261 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 3, 1988

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2005

In 1988, public housing residents and applicants filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Allegheny County, the Allegheny County Housing Authority (ACHA), and the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County (“RAAC”).  The plaintiffs were represented by attorneys from the Neighborhood Legal Services Association of Pittsburgh and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Und…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Cabrini-Green Local v. CHA

1:96-cv-06949 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1996

Case Ongoing

On October 23, 1996, Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council (LAC), a tenant organization that represents the tenants of Cabrini-Green, a family public housing development in Chicago, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff sued the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and its Executive Director under the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, HOPE VI, the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, and the the Uniform Relocati…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…