Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center v. St. Bernard Parish

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a Parish Council’s moratorium on the construction of multi-family housing violated the terms of a consent order, even though that order did not explicitly prohibit the Council from imposing the moratorium
• invalidating post-Hurricane Katrina ordinance restricting the rental of housing units to only “ ‘blood relative[s]’ ” in an area of the city that was 88.3% white and 7.6% black
• invalidating ordinance allowing only “blood relative[s]” to rent housing units in section of city where residents were “88.3% Caucasian and 7.6% African-American”
• finding a substantial disparate impact because African Americans were 1.85 times as likely as Whites to be affected by a housing policy
• invalidating post-Hurricane Katrina ordinance restricting the rental of housing units to only “ ‘blood relative[s]’ ” in an area of the city that was 88.3% white and 7.6% black
• “The references to ‘ghetto,’ ‘crime,’ ‘blight,’ and ‘shared values’ are similar to the types of expressions that courts in similar situations have found to be nothing more than camouflaged racial expressions” (citation modified)

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