Recent Accomplishments Of The Housing And Civil Enforcement Section

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harassed multiple female tenants since at least 2011. The original complaint also named as defendants Shirlee Nolen and Nolen Properties, LLC because they co-own or co-owned properties where harassment occurred at the relevant times. The amended complaint added the Canale Defendants because they co-owned properties where harassment occurred at the relevant times.
On February 14, 2025, the court entered a consent order in United States v. Ariel Solis Veleta, et al. (D.N.M.). The amended complaint, which was filed on February 13, 2025, alleges that between 2010 and 2022, Ariel Solis Veleta (Solis), a property manager in Albuquerque, New Mexico, engaged in a pattern or practice of sexual harassment against female tenants at St. Anthony Plaza Apartments in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit further alleges that Solis’s employer and the Apartment’s owners and managers are vicariously liable for Solis’s discriminatory conduct because Solis acted as their agent when he sexually harassed tenants. The consent decree requires the defendants to pay $350,000 to female tenants harmed by Solis’s harassment and a $10,000 civil penalty to the United States. The consent decree permanently bars Solis from contacting tenants harmed by his harassment and from managing residential rental properties. It also requires that defendants provide training and adopt policies and procedures to prevent future discrimination at residential rental properties that they own or manage.
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
On April 16, 2026, the parties executed a settlement agreement in United States v. David Montanus and Lisa Montanus (D.N.H.) The United States filed its complaint on May 23, 2025, and filed an amended complaint on July 18, 2025. The United States’ lawsuit alleged that the