Who can be sued for violations of the design and construction requirements of the Fair Housing Act?
The following persons and entities may be sued: 1. Any person or entity involved in the design and construction of the building may be held liable for violations of the Act. 2. A later owner of a building may be held liable if the later owner makes structural changes so that the building does not meet the access requirements. 3. A person or entity that has bought a building or property after it was designed and constructed may be sued when that person or entity is necessary to provide authority to remedy violations. Individual owners or occupants of inaccessible units who were not involved in building, developing, or managing them, and who own only individual units will not be named in HUD complaints.
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