The Tallahassee Housing Authority has mismanaged the relocation of hundreds of families from a South City apartment complex slated to be torn down and redeveloped, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the tenants.
The Orange Avenue United Tenants’ Association alleged in the lawsuit that the housing authority violated the Fair Housing Act by circumventing promises made in a redevelopment master plan for Orange Avenue Apartments.
The complaint says the THA’s plans “will displace its heavily Black tenant population into more racially segregated neighborhoods with fewer economic and social opportunities and replace the Orange Avenue Apartments with new, more expensive housing that will be less available to Tallahassee’s poorer Black residents, thereby exacerbating Tallahassee’s long history of residential segregation and causing exactly the kind of racially discriminatory result that the Fair Housing Act prohibits.”
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