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Attorney General: Don't mix religion and rentals
From staff reports
TRENTON -- Attorney General Stuart Rabner announced today that the state Division on Civil Rights has issued a Finding of Probable Cause against a New Brunswick man accused of religion-based housing discrimination for allegedly placing Internet rental ads cautioning that his rooming house was a “Christian household” and using a lease that stated to potential renters that if “you hate God do not move in.”
Joseph Fabics Jr. of New Brunswick is accused of placing room rental ads on two Web sites frequented by students seeking housing. In both cases, the ads made plain that the room available for rent was located in a “Christian
household.” In addition, Fabics is accused of including in his standard lease agreement a clause that read: “This is a Christian household. If you hate God do not move in.”
A Finding of Probable Cause means the state has finished its investigation, and has determined there is sufficient evidence to support a reasonable suspicion that the actions of the respondent violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD).
The alleged discrimination by Fabics came to the state’s attention in July 2006 after a man who had rented a room in Fabics’ six-bedroom boarding house on Howard Street in New Brunswick filed a formal complaint with the Division on Civil Rights (DCR).
“As the LAD makes clear – and as every New Jersey landlord should know -- all otherwise eligible persons have the right to equal treatment in the pursuit of safe and affordable housing, ” said DCR Director Frank Vespa-Papaleo.
Former tenant Carl Foster charged in his complaint that he was forced to vacate the room he rented from Fabics because of religion-based harassment linked to his refusal to sign a formal lease agreement. Foster, who told state investigators he was Episcopalian, said he nonetheless refused to sign a formal lease agreement because it contained the “Christian household” language, and an admonition that, “If you hate God, do not move in.”
The Division on Civil Rights has six offices: Atlantic City, Camden, Jersey City, Newark, Trenton and Paterson. Further information is available on the DCR Web site www.NJCivilrights.org .
To file a formal Complaint, persons may call the DCR’s Housing Discrimination Hotline toll-free at 1-866-405-3050.
Attorney General: Don't mix religion and rentals
From staff reports
TRENTON -- Attorney General Stuart Rabner announced today that the state Division on Civil Rights has issued a Finding of Probable Cause against a New Brunswick man accused of religion-based housing discrimination for allegedly placing Internet rental ads cautioning that his rooming house was a “Christian household” and using a lease that stated to potential renters that if “you hate God do not move in.”
Joseph Fabics Jr. of New Brunswick is accused of placing room rental ads on two Web sites frequented by students seeking housing. In both cases, the ads made plain that the room available for rent was located in a “Christian
household.” In addition, Fabics is accused of including in his standard lease agreement a clause that read: “This is a Christian household. If you hate God do not move in.”
A Finding of Probable Cause means the state has finished its investigation, and has determined there is sufficient evidence to support a reasonable suspicion that the actions of the respondent violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD).
The alleged discrimination by Fabics came to the state’s attention in July 2006 after a man who had rented a room in Fabics’ six-bedroom boarding house on Howard Street in New Brunswick filed a formal complaint with the Division on Civil Rights (DCR).
“As the LAD makes clear – and as every New Jersey landlord should know -- all otherwise eligible persons have the right to equal treatment in the pursuit of safe and affordable housing, ” said DCR Director Frank Vespa-Papaleo.
Former tenant Carl Foster charged in his complaint that he was forced to vacate the room he rented from Fabics because of religion-based harassment linked to his refusal to sign a formal lease agreement. Foster, who told state investigators he was Episcopalian, said he nonetheless refused to sign a formal lease agreement because it contained the “Christian household” language, and an admonition that, “If you hate God, do not move in.”
The Division on Civil Rights has six offices: Atlantic City, Camden, Jersey City, Newark, Trenton and Paterson. Further information is available on the DCR Web site www.NJCivilrights.org .
To file a formal Complaint, persons may call the DCR’s Housing Discrimination Hotline toll-free at 1-866-405-3050.
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