The dept of human rights who was supposedly investigating the discrimination complaint against our former landlords Fulton County Housing Authority decided their was not enough evidence. What a joke. The report eluded to things that never happened, interviews that did ot take place. It also included a denial that the former landlord had any knowledge of Brad being disabled. Fact: the housing authority on 4 different occasions received for income verification purposes our award letters from Social security disability. Exactly how could a Housing authority not know the person is disabled? Further they said that Bradley never requested a reasonable accommodation. They also stated receiving a request for an accommodation but said it was not on the proper from, Ridiculous. The matter is now up for review by the Illinois Human Rights Commission. They received a 24 page reason why the case should not have been dismissed and hopefully they will do the right thing and not drop the ball on this one. Since moving from the Fulton County Housing Authority owned property we moved into this house from hell. The one good thing about the HUD funded projects is they keep property up to codes. We are now facing eviction again for what amounts to complaining to the city about the deplorable conditions of the property. The judge we got is the same as last time and because of this we requested a jury trial. It is sad that people can get away with renting property to others knowing it is in such bad shape that the life and health and safety of the renters is at risk. We have to keep fighting this discrimination until somebody does the job that needs to be done. Other news here in Canton relating to discrimination is the school board just fired a teacher because the principal did not like her. The community is outraged and is forming a group to protest, petition, and fight the discrimination of the school district. The mayor candidate race is heating up as the former mayor Bohler settled a discrimination suit against a secretary during his last term of office and the current mayor Meade is running to keep his office. It is sad that a person who may or may not be a good mayor has to screw up and do something stupid. This as it is stated by Bohler" minor non issue" not only cost the city money but was a very serious charge and should preclude him from being mayor period. Look what happened to Clinton.
Just wanted to thank you for this post, it clears up a lot of misconceptions. Keep up the great work!