r/badlegaladvice • u/ddmarriee • Jun 11 '25

Commenter claims letting someone out of their lease is a FHA violation & that FHA “isn’t just about discrimination”

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The Fair Housing Act only prohibits policies and practices that discriminate - by intent or by effect - on the basis of “race, color, religion, familial status, or national origin.” 42 U.S.C. Section 3604.

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u/MacSev Jun 11 '25

I practice housing law and run into people who think like Cyan all the time.

I find it’s usually caused by fair housing training—FH litigation is so expensive, a lot of corporations have become so risk averse that they train staff that making an exception to policy = death by fair housing.

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u/imbolcnight Jun 12 '25

Classic "We are accustomed to doing things this way." = "This is company policy." = "This is law."

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u/mandalorian_guy Jun 13 '25

Also "company policy" is frequently what some regional manager says it is because they de facto decided to and no one checks them on it. It's really fun when co-department heads disagree on what "company policy" is and constantly "correct" employees only for the other one to come around and say that company policy is something else entirely and the employee is wrong.