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PUBLIC HOUSING
LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles

2:20-cv-02291 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is a follow-up to Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, in which advocates for unhoused people successfully pushed the City of Los Angeles to limit its removal of property in encampments in the Skid Row area of the city. LA Alliance for Human Rights, a community group that primarily represents the interests of business owners, homeowners, and property renters, unsuccessfully attempted to intervene in Mitchell and brought this case after that settlement was reached. LA Alliance filed this a…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

PUBLIC HOUSING
National Alliance to End Homelessness v. Turner

1:25-cv-00447 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

In National Alliance to End Homelessness & Women’s Development Corporation v. Turner, the case tests whether HUD may attach sweeping political and ideological conditions to federal homelessness funding. On September 11, 2025, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) and the Women’s Development Corporation (WDC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island before District Judge Mary S. McElroy and Magistrate Judge Austin E. McConaghy, naming Housing and Urban De…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
National Fair Housing Alliance v. Department of Housing and Urban Development

1:25-cv-01965 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Trump Administration’s withholding of over $20 million in money supporting fair housing initiatives.  Congress amended the Fair Housing Act (FHA) in 1992 to establish the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) which provides grants to certain private, nonprofit fair housing organizations to facilitate enforcement of the FHA. Under the Trump Administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began to refuse to either implement the second and thir…
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Preliminary Injunction Granted

PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
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PUBLIC HOUSING
Urban Justice Center Safety Net Project v. City of New York

1:24-cv-08221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case alleging that New York City’s “homeless sweeps” violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. On October 29, 2024, a group of homeless individuals in New York City and the Urban Justice Safety Net Project filed a class action complaint challenging the City’s use of sweeps, also referred to as cleanups, against homeless individuals. The plaintiffs were homeless New Yorkers who have been subjected to homeless sweeps and are at imminent risk of bein…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Bradley v. City of San Diego

3:25-cv-02186 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the absence of humane conditions and reasonable accommodations for unhoused residents of municipally administered camps.  On August 25, 2025, eight unhoused people with disabilities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Represented by Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance, in addition to private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the City of San Diego and two non-profit organizations—Dreams for Change and Downtown…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Parnell v. City of Berkeley

3:23-cv-06379 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2023

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2024

This case arose from a city’s plan to imminently clear an encampment of unhoused individuals with little notice. On December 11, 2023, three unhoused individuals filed suit against the City of Berkeley to prevent their eviction from an encampment at 8th and Harrison Streets. Proceeding pro se (that is, representing themselves), the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where it was assigned to District Judge Edward M. Chen. The plaint…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago v. City of Chicago

1:18-cv-03399 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

This action challenges the state of Illinois’ housing practices for alleged failure to comply with federal disability accessibility law. On May 13, 2018, Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, Inc., an Illinois-based disability advocacy nonprofit, sued the City of Chicago in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern District. Plaintiff observed that Chicago had developed and supported affordable housing initiatives (“Affordable Rental Housing Program”) since 1988 with th…

Case Is Ongoing

DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. City of Anoka, Minnesota

0:24-cv-01861 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: May 21, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is about treating calls for emergency services - often in relation to mental health crises - as "nuisance" incidents. On May 21, 2024, the United States filed a lawsuit against the City of Anoka, Minnesota, alleging violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The case was brought by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The United States claimed that since at least 2018, the City discriminated against indiv…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Warren v. City of Chico

2:21-cv-00640 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

Involuntarily unhoused residents of Chico, California, filed this lawsuit against the City of Chico and the City of Chico Police Department, challenging the City’s ordinances that criminalized homelessness by banning camping and storing personal property in public places. Represented by attorneys from Legal Services of Northern California, on April 8, 2021, eight individuals sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and alleged violations of their rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amend…