SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Anita Brazil’s 20-year-old son arrived at her doorstep in late December in the midst of what she describes as a severe psychiatric collapse, she says she did what any mother would do: she brought him inside.
Instead, Brazil alleges, her effort to temporarily house and stabilize her adult son triggered a three-month campaign of discrimination, retaliation and harassment by her landlord that ultimately forced her family from their Sacramento home.
Now, the first-year Master of Science in Law student at McGeorge School of Law has filed a fair housing complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, arguing that California’s protections for tenants with disabilities often mean little if families cannot find attorneys willing to pursue such cases…