A recent court ruling required Table Mound Mobile Home Park, in Iowa, to accept Section 8 housing vouchers from a tenant with disabilities. It was a “significant victory for both manufactured-home owners and disabled Iowans alike,” an attorney said.
In 2009, Suellen Klossner purchased a 1977 double-wide trailer home in Table Mound Mobile Home Park, in Dubuque, Iowa, for twenty-eight thousand dollars. According to court documents, Klossner, who is sixty-two, suffers from multiple mental- and physical-health issues, and has been receiving disability benefits from the Social Security Administration since 1993. She is unable to work, and her income is about a thousand dollars a month.
There is a shortage of affordable housing across the United States. According to a report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a person working full time for minimum wage would not be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment in any state in the country.
Klossner’s legal case was an important test of their tactics. Attorneys from Iowa Legal Aid said in their complaint that, in addition to implementing huge rent increases, Table Mound had been billing Klossner for water, sewer, and trash-collection services in excess of what it cost the company to provide them. In November, 2019, Klossner had to repair a bathroom plumbing issue that left her without enough funds to pay her rent and utility bills.
In its response, Impact M.H.C. Management, which manages Table Mound, said that it had a company policy not to accept Section 8 housing assistance, and argued that agreeing to accept vouchers was not a “reasonable accommodation” of Klossner’s disability under F.H.A. rules. It also argued that Klossner’s inability to pay her rent without government assistance was not necessarily a result of her disability.
Last August, the case went to trial and, on October 6th, the judge delivered a decision in Klossner’s favor and ordered Impact to accept Klossner’s vouchers. Although Impact has appealed, the court’s ruling represents a substantial win, and is the first time that the question of whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act can require landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouchers for people with disabilities has been decided after a trial.
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