Town of Huntington v. Huntington Branch

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• holding that zoning practices that discriminate against racial minorities can violate the FHA
• confirming that Title VII framework provides the best model for disparate impact claims under the FHA, and collecting cases
• determining that defendants violated Title VIII by refusing to amend a zoning ordinance to permit the construction of a multi-family dwelling
• noting that fashioning of remedy is “ordinarily” first considered by district court
• overturning zoning law restricting construction of multifamily housing projects to part of town where fifty-two per cent of residents were people of color in town that was ninety-eight per cent Caucasian and four per cent African-American
• town violated FHA when it refused to amend an ordinance that restricted multifamily housing projects to predominantly minority area so that construction could take place in another area

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).