Section 46a-64c

Citation: Section 46a-64c
Parent Document: Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Sullivan Associates, 250 Conn. 763 (1999)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 1999-10-12
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7898215/commission-on-human-rights-oppo... ↗

Full Text

1,193 chars

The question remains, however, whether the defendant’s standard requirement that each potential tenant have a gross weekly income that approximates one month’s rent bore a reasonable relationship to the defendant’s ability to enforce the potential tenant’s personal rental obligation. If the defendant’s formula is applied to the raw numbers of the relators’ incomes, its requirements are amply met. Hanson had an income of $581 a month (or $135 a week) to cover a personal rental obligation of $11; Roper had a monthly income of $776 (or $181 a week) to cover a monthly rental obligation of $64. As the defendant notes, however, these figures do not take into account those parts of the tenant’s disposable income that must cover items *791such as the tenant’s utility expenses, which, according to the defendant’s estimates, would have amounted to roughly $227 a month.35 Furthermore, they do not address the tenant’s ability to reimburse the defendant if, hypothetically, damages to the rented property were to exceed the amount of the stipulated two month rental deposit. These were not, however, the articulated bases for the defendant’s decision not to rent to the relators in this case.

Other Sections in This Document (133)

Full Text