Rules require that affordable housing built with federal grant money be accessible to people with disabilities. Los Angeles failed to do that, officials said.
The city of Los Angeles will pay nearly $40 million for misusing federal housing grants when it created affordable housing that was not accessible to people with disabilities, according to an announcement Monday from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“This settlement shows that we will hold accountable jurisdictions receiving federal grant money to ensure they satisfy their obligations to make affordable housing accessible to people with disabilities,” Principal Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen. Brian M. Boynton, head of the U.S. Justice Department’s civil division, said in a statement. The lawsuit was initially filed in 2011 by an L.A. resident who uses a wheelchair and the nonprofit advocacy group Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley.
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