Lorena Cabrera and her two minor sons were tenants at a housing development managed by the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA). Ms. Cabrera brought a lawsuit against SFHA and its employees, alleging claims relative to substandard and uninhabitable housing conditions and the failure to provide language translation services. The language barrier allegedly prevented the plaintiff from communicating serious habitability issues that were not remedied. Plaintiff filed a total of eight claims, including violations of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) for discrimination based on national origin and disability; the 1964 Civil Rights Act for racial discrimination; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the Unruh Civil Rights Act, and the Americans With Disabilities Act. The court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss all claims with the exception of the plaintiff’s FHA, FEHA, and Unruh Act claims under the disparate treatment theory.
