{"id":113,"date":"2022-11-17T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=113"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:32:51","slug":"fair-housing-act-claim-available-for-racial-harassment-by-one-owner-against-another-but-no-claim-against-the-homeowners-association-itself-even-though-the-harassers-were-president-of-the-hoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2022\/11\/17\/fair-housing-act-claim-available-for-racial-harassment-by-one-owner-against-another-but-no-claim-against-the-homeowners-association-itself-even-though-the-harassers-were-president-of-the-hoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Housing Act claim available for racial harassment by one owner against another but no claim against the homeowners association itself even though the harassers were president of the HOA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When an African American couple bought property and were subject to taunts and told they were unwelcome by other owners, they had claims against those owners under the Fair Housing Act both by \u201cmaking housing unavailable\u201d under 42 U.S.C. \u00a73604(a), and \u201cinterfering\u201d with others in the \u201cenjoyment of\u2026 right[s] granted by [the Fair Housing Act].\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca7\/19-3499\/19-3499-2022-09-12.pdf?ts=1663005621\">Watters v. Homeowners\u2019 Ass\u2019n at the Preserve at Bridgewater,<\/a>&nbsp;48 F.4<sup>th<\/sup>779 (7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Cir. 2022). However, even though the harassers were the president and former president of the homeowners\u2019 association, the association itself was not liable despite its failure to intervene to stop the harassment.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/fair-housing-act\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fair Housing Act<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an African American couple bought property and were subject to taunts and told they were unwelcome by other owners, they had claims against those owners under the Fair Housing Act both by \u201cmaking housing unavailable\u201d under 42 U.S.C. \u00a73604(a), and \u201cinterfering\u201d with others in the \u201cenjoyment of\u2026 right[s] granted by [the Fair Housing Act].\u201d&nbsp;Watters v. Homeowners\u2019 Ass\u2019n at the Preserve at Bridgewater,&nbsp;48 F.4th779 (7th&nbsp;Cir. 2022). However, even though the harassers were the president and former president of the homeowners\u2019 association, the association itself was not liable despite its failure to intervene to stop the harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law","category-fair-housing-act"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}