Housing groups to file discrimination complaint

An Atlanta-based housing group will join two others tomorrow in announcing a discrimination complaint against a Pennsylvania contractor.

Metro Fair Housing Services, Inc. will release details of a discrimination complaint being filed against Asset Management Specialists, Inc., and has which has done work for national housing lender Fannie Mae.

The announcement will be made in a press conference in the afternoon by Metro Fair Housing Services, the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan.

Asset Management Specialists has done work maintaining Fannie Mae’s foreclosed homes, according to a written release by Metro Fair Housing Services and the other groups.

The three housing organizations say that Asset Management Specialists did not properly maintain properties in African-American and Latino neighborhoods in three places: Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Mich., and San Diego, Calif.

This complaint will be filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The announcement will be made in a press conference in the afternoon by Metro Fair Housing Services, the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan.

Asset Management Specialists is based in Bristol, Pa.

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