Escondido
A handicapped Escondido woman who was harassed by her apartment manager and the building owners over her aid dog received a $60,000 award and a guarantee of reasonable housing accommodations under a consent order signed this week.
Delores D. Roberts, a resident of the Quail Creek Apartments in the 1800 block of North Broadway in Escondido, is the recipient of the award.
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development filed charges last February against Gladys Purkett, the manager; W. W. Quail Creek Partners Ltd., the owner, and W. Wolf Industries, the general partner. HUD alleged that they had discriminated against Roberts by attempting to evict her because of her aid dog; had interfered with her use of the dog; had charged her a “pet deposit” to keep the dog in her apartment and had harassed her about the dog.
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