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Southwest Fair Housing Council v. Mdwid, 17 F.4th 950 (2021)

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Southwest Fair Housing Council v. Mdwid, 17 F.4th 950 (2021)
Parent Document
Southwest Fair Housing Council v. Mdwid, 17 F.4th 950 (2021)
Effective Date
2021-11-12

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Public housing residents Tavita Peña and Jennifer Peters,
along with Southwest Fair Housing Council, Inc., an
Arizona nonprofit corporation which describes itself as
having a mission to achieve equal access to housing
(together, “Appellants”), challenge this policy as
impermissibly discriminatory under the FHA. Appellants’
primary argument alleges the policy caused a disparate
impact because it applied only to the District’s public
housing customers, who are disproportionately African
American, Native American, and single mothers. The
district court granted the District summary judgment on the
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