Testing by the Fair Housing Action Center found that African-American and white tenants were steered to different sides of the apartment complex. Black tenants occupied one side of the apartment complex entirely, except for a white woman with biracial children and a white woman who lived in an apartment with an African-American man. FHAC also learned that each side of the complex had a swimming pool that could be used only by residents living on that side. The owners fired the on-site manager, Linda Kreger, after FHAC filed the housing discrimination lawsuit against them. Favrot Realty has sold the apartment complex.
Slavery is over.
This is 1998. We are free. We are not living in a cage. FHAC used funds from HUD's Fair Housing Initiatives Program in its investigation. Attorney Susan Kohn of Simon, Peragine, Smith, and Redfearn represented FHAC and the other plaintiffs in the case.