The Clover Group is being sued for alleged disability discrimination at 38 of the company’s affordable senior housing properties in Indiana, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The complaint, filed Tuesday by seven fair housing organizations, alleges disability discrimination, saying that the properties have inaccessible parking spaces, mailboxes, bathrooms and routes to units and public common use areas even though the apartments are advertised as “fully handicapped-accessible.” The alleged violations pose safety hazards for the residents and also signal that people with disabilities are not welcome, according to the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs — CNY Fair Housing, Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research, Fair Housing Opportunities of Northwest Ohio, Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Buffalo and Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati — maintain that the Clover Group is violating the Fair Housing Act’s accessibility requirements.
“We need to make sure that each housing unit required to meet accessibility requirements does so to ensure people can age in place in the housing of their choice,” Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana Executive Director Amy Nelson said.
The Clover Group had not responded to McKnight’s Business Daily’s requests for comment by the production deadline.
