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A controversial Detroit landlord and real estate investor paid $300,000 early this year amid allegations of housing discrimination against people with children in violation of federal law. Dennis Kefallinos, in federal court documents, denies running afoul of fair housing law — and says he regularly rents to people with children. However, he agreed to the $300,000 consent order with the nonprofit Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit in January after more than two years in court. One-quarter ($75,000) of that created a fund that pays up to $2,500 each to people found to have been discriminated against, according to the order filed in January. Another $124,265 in damages...Read more >

New York Attorney General Letitia James joins a press conference to support rent controlled tenants who have been threatened with eviction because their landlord has filed for bankruptcy in March. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images New York landlords are attacking rent regulations in a new federal lawsuit, claiming that capping what they can charge tenants in rent is equivalent to an illegal taking of property. Last month, housing advocates in New York celebrated sweeping new laws that established rent control permanently and extended tenant protections beyond just New York City, allowing cities throughout New York to opt into rent stabilization programs, which...Read more >