Recent Accomplishments Of The Housing And Civil Enforcement Section

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Recent Accomplishments Of The Housing And Civil Enforcement Section
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plaintiffs and expressly referencing and adopting several of the arguments from the United States’s statement of interest in Lawrence County Recovery v. Village of Coal Grove (S.D. Ohio). The United States’ statement of interest, the United States filed a Statement of Interest The case concerns housing for persons in recovery from substance abuse disorders, individuals who qualify as disabled persons under the FHA. Lawrence County Recovery operates two self-directed “independent living” homes with no on-site staff in Coal Grove for persons in addiction recovery; each home has a maximum of six residents. Plaintiffs filed suit following the Village of Coal Grove’s attempts to prohibit housing for persons in recovery in a variety of ways, including enacting a moratorium on recovery homes. The United States’s Statement of Interest which was filed on December 6, 2024, clarifies that the FHA extends to persons in addiction recovery and that municipalities are subject to the FHA. Ensuring that courts recognize the FHA’s protections extend to persons recovering from addiction is particularly important in Ohio, where rates of deaths from drug overdoses remain notably higher than the national average.
On April 11, 2025, the Justice Department filed a statement of interest in Muslims on Long Islands v. Township of Oyster Bay (E.D.N.Y.), a lawsuit alleging that the Town violated RLUIPA by enacting and enforcing parking provisions that treat religious uses less favorably than secular places of assembly. The lawsuit alleges that Muslims on Long Island (MOLI) has worshipped at a mosque in Bethpage, Long Island, since 1998, but that it has grown and now needs additional space for prayer, religious education, ritual washing and religious counseling. In its complaint and motion for a