ABA Family Legal Guide

Renting Residential Property

Other Issues

Fair Housing

What are the possible outcomes for a prospective tenant who files a complaint or a lawsuit for discrimination?

If the prospective tenant wins, the landlord can be ordered to rent the premises to the prospective tenant and perhaps to pay actual and punitive monetary damages as well. The landlord can also be assessed the lawyer's fees incurred by the prospective tenant. The landlord may also have to submit to periodic review of documents and practices by the enforcing authority for a certain number of years.