Washington, D.C., attorney general sues lender over alleged housing discrimination in rent-controlled units

On February 20, the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (OAG) announced that it has filed a complaint in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia alleging that a real estate lending firm engaged in unlawful housing discrimination by financing developers who excluded tenants without housing subsidies from rent-controlled units. The complaint claimed the lender appraised and issued loans based on developers’ promises to lease exclusively to subsidized tenants, thereby... By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP