Eviction Fears, Disability Discrimination, and Trump’s War on Fair Housing

n Minnesota, two tenants, the parents of a young autistic son, were told that they would be evicted. The reason? One neighbor had repeatedly complained about noise stemming from the child’s behavior, though it was nothing constant nor pervasive, according to Courtney Arthur, the program manager for Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid’s Housing Discrimination Law Project. But the landlord, who decided that this was reason to evict them, was constrained because this potentially could constitute a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. more