A landlord told a young mother in Grand Rapids, Michigan that if she rented a duplex, she would have to pay a double security deposit — because she had three kids, according to The Grand Rapids Press . What that apartment hunter didn’t know at the time was that the landlord was violating federal law. The Fair Housing Act bans discrimination based on ” familial status ,” which means landlords can’t treat you worse than other tenants just because you have one or more children
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