South-Suburban Housing Center v. Greater South Suburban Board of Realtors
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
935 F.2d 868 (1991)
- Written by Carolyn Strutton, JD
Facts
The South-Suburban Housing Center (SSHC) (plaintiff) was a nonprofit organization that promoted increased racial integration of neighborhoods in the Chicago area. SSHC sought to attract more White homebuyers to predominately Black neighborhoods in an effort to counter white flight and other market forces that were resulting in the resegregation of previously integrated areas. In order to further these goals, the SSHC bought a number of vacant homes in a predominantly Black neighborhood for rehabilitations and resale and created an affirmative marketing plan that sought to attract more potential White buyers to theses available homes. The SSHC’s marketing plan only sought to increase visibility to White buyers and did not in any way seek to steer Black or other minority buyers away from the homes or to lessen existing marketing efforts to these groups. The Greater South Suburban Board of Realtors (realtors board) (defendant) opposed this marketing plan because it believed the plan amounted to racial steering, and the realtors board removed the listings from its multiple listing service. The SSHC sued the realtors board and the realtors board countersued SSHC, alleging that the marketing plan violated the Fair Housing Act. The district court held that the plan did not violate the act, and the realtors board appealed.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Coffey, J.)
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