Danville, Illinois Gets Fair Housing Suit That Includes Charge Based on Failure to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing.

Danville Commerical News story is HERE.

A primary cause for the suit are actions by the Danville Mayor:

Mayor Eisenhauer has publicly led a campaign to reduce the supply of subsidized housing in Danville over the next four years and prioritize so-called longtime residents for these housing subsidies. The Mayor’s effort to reduce the supply of subsidized housing is a key objective of the City’s 2010 Consolidated Plan, which proposes to reduce public housing by 326 units and Housing Choice Vouchers by 223, impose punitive work and community service hour requirements, and limit housing subsidies to “those who have ties to the community.” Given the fact that African-Americans make up the majority of the residents of public housing, Housing Choice Voucher holders, waitlist participants and eligible households for both subsidies, these proposed actions will have an unlawful disparate impact on African-Americans...

Actual complaint HERE is posted on Shriver National Center on Poverty Law website.