Mass Civil Rights Complaints Filed Against Chicago-Area Real Estate Agents & Landlords for Housing Discrimination

Following a sweeping undercover investigation by a housing watchdog group, today Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) filed the largest housing discrimination case in Illinois history against 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms, and landlords alleging they illegally discriminated against low-income families who sought to use Housing Choice Vouchers (“Section 8”). HRI submitted the 176 complaints against 165 defendants in a massive series of filings with the Illinois Department of Human Rights.
The defendants include some of the largest real estate companies in the country, including Coldwell Banker, Christie’s International Real Estate, Keller Williams, and Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Chicago.
Read more at DRA Legal.