The Federal Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing, both public and private, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, and disability. Under the Fair Housing Act, a potential or current housing provider is prohibited from treating a renter differently because of their sex. Sex discrimination can come in a variety of forms, including not allowing multiple tenants of the same sex, evicting victims of domestic violence for reporting their partners, and sexual harassment of a tenant by a landlord or a landlord’s employee. You can read about cases filed on the basis of sex on our Litigation Log.
Sarah Yoder contacted the Fair Housing Center in August 2018 to file a sexual harassment complaint against Ryan McDonell. Ms. Yoder says she was asked to do a striptease in exchange for negotiating a lower rent.
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Six women filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against their former landlords, Raymond “Scott” Myers and his parents, Ernest and Becky Myers. According to the lawsuit, Scott Myers engaged in a range of behavior including: making unwelcome sexual advances to tenants; placing sex devices in tenants’ rooms and common areas of the house; and performing sexual acts in tenants’ bedrooms and bathrooms during their absence. Along with a $166,200 settlement, Mr. Myers and his parents are barred from the housing rental business.
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Amanda Coffin, complainant
