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JUNE E. SULLIVAN-LACKEY, Defendant-Appellant (The City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations, Defendant-Appellant)." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "PRESIDING JUSTICE CAMPBELL\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nDefendants, June E. Sullivan-Lackey and the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations (the Commission), appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County reversing the determination of the Commission that the refusal of plaintiffs, Julio Godinez and Carlos Godinez, to rent an apartment to Sullivan-Lackey constituted discrimination in violation of the City of Chicago Fair Housing Ordinance (Chicago Municipal Code \u00a7 5 \u2014 8\u2014030 (2003)) (Fair Housing Ordinance). On appeal, defendants contend that: (1) section 8 rental assistance (42 U.S.C. 1437f (1988)) (hereinafter Section 8) is a \u201csource of income\u201d under the Fair Housing Ordinance; (2) the Commission\u2019s determination that plaintiffs discriminated against Sullivan-Lackey based on her source of income was not against the manifest weight of the evidence; and (3) the Commission properly awarded fees and costs to Sullivan-Lackey. For the following reasons, we reverse the judgment of the circuit court and reinstate the determination and order of the Commission.\nBACKGROUND\nThe record reveals the following relevant facts. In April 1999, Sullivan-Lackey held a Section 8 rental assistance voucher, a form of monetary assistance created by Congress to aid low-income families in securing decent housing. Under the program, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) enters into an annual contributions contract with a public housing agency, which agrees to administer the program while HUD provides the necessary funds. The central requirements of the program are that: (1) the housing units meet set quality standards, as determined by the local housing authority based on an inspection of the unit prior to the lease and each year after that time; and (2) the amount of rent for units must be reasonable in comparisons with rents charged for comparable dwelling units in the private, unassisted local market.\nAs part of the program, Sullivan-Lackey\u2019s residence was inspected at the end of her lease to determine whether it met the standards required for compliance. The residence failed the inspection and Sullivan-Lackey was forced to move in order to keep her vouchers. If she was unable to secure a new residence before the expiration of her vouchers, then she would lose the rental assistance.\nSullivan-Lackey learned of a vacant apartment in the apartment complex where her daughter resided. This complex is owned by plaintiff Julio Godinez and managed by his son, plaintiff Carlos Godinez. This apartment interested Sullivan-Lackey for several reasons, namely, it was on the first floor, which was important because Sullivan-Lackey suffered from numerous medical conditions that made climbing stairs difficult, and the apartment would allow her to baby-sit her grandchildren while her daughter was at work. Sullivan-Lackey, accompanied by her daughter, met with Carlos to view and apply for the apartment. Sullivan-Lackey filled out her rental application immediately after viewing the unit and made a payment of the $25 application fee, for which she received a receipt from Carlos.\nCarlos reviewed her application and upon noticing that she was unemployed, asked how she intended to pay her rent. Sullivan-Lackey told him that she had a Section 8 voucher. Carlos stated that he did not accept Section 8 payments because he did not want to be audited. He told her that she could have the apartment if she paid $600 in cash each month for rent. Sullivan-Lackey did not agree to this and did not take the apartment. A couple days later, Sullivan-Lackey\u2019s daughter found a torn section of her mother\u2019s rental application on the normal route to dispose of trash.\nSullivan-Lackey was not able to find Section 8 housing before the expiration of her vouchers and she lost her benefits. Following Sullivan-Lackey\u2019s denial, two fair housing testers telephoned plaintiffs to inquire about apartments in plaintiffs\u2019 complex. Each asked about Section 8 vouchers and was informed that they did not accept Section 8 vouchers. Plaintiffs have never leased an apartment to a tenant who paid rent with Section 8 vouchers.\nIn August 1999, Sullivan-Lackey filed a complaint with the Commission alleging that plaintiffs violated the Fair Housing Ordinance by discriminating against her based on her source of income. A hearing officer appointed by the Commission conducted a hearing on the complaint and issued a first recommended decision. Plaintiffs objected to the decision, and the hearing officer issued a final recommended decision. In July 2001, after reviewing the evidence presented at the hearing, the Commission issued its fined ruling, concluding that the facts demonstrated that plaintiffs violated the Fair Housing Ordinance by discriminating against Sullivan-Lackey. The Commission awarded damages totaling $5,610 to Sullivan-Lackey and levied a $250 fine against the plaintiffs. In October 2001, the Commission issued an additional ruling awarding attorney fees of $16,284 to Sullivan-Lackey.\nIn November 2001, plaintiffs filed a writ of certiorari in the circuit court to review the administrative findings of the Commission. In June 2002, the circuit court reversed the Commission\u2019s rulings, finding as follows:\n\u201c(1) the Chicago ordinances do not provide an explicit requirement that landlords seek Section 8 certification despite the City\u2019s having the power and authority to do so;\n(2) pursuant to Knapp v. Eagle, 54 F.3d 1272, this court finds that Section 8 benefits are not a \u2018source of income\u2019 within the meaning of the Chicago anti-discrimination ordinance.\u201d\nDefendants\u2019 timely appeal followed.\nOPINION\nInitially, defendants contend that the trial court erred in reversing the determination of the Commission that Section 8 rental assistance vouchers are considered a \u201csource of income\u201d under the Chicago Fair Housing Ordinance.\nA reviewing court considers the administrative agency\u2019s decision and not that of the circuit court. Sangirardi v. Village of Stickney, 342 Ill. App. 3d 1, 10 (2003). The findings and conclusions of the administrative agency on questions of fact shall be held to be prima facie true and correct (735 ILCS 5/3 \u2014 110 (West 2000)), and a court may not overturn an administrative decision unless the authority of the administrative body was exercised in an arbitrary or capricious manner or the decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence. O\u2019Neil v. Ryan, 301 Ill. App. 3d 392, 400 (1998). A reviewing court does not reweigh the evidence or make an independent review of the facts, but rather its function is to ascertain whether the final decision of the administrative body is just and reasonable in light of the evidence presented. Conklin v. Ryan, 242 Ill. App. 3d 32, 37 (1993). If the record contains any evidence that fairly supports the agency\u2019s decision, such decision is not against the manifest weight of the evidence and must be sustained upon review. Conklin, 242 Ill. App. 3d at 37. However, questions of law are not entitled to the same deference and are reviewed de novo. Sangirardi, 342 Ill. App. 3d at 10.\nSection 5\u20148\u2014030 of the Chicago Municipal Code states, in relevant part:\n\u201cIt shall be an unfair housing practice and unlawful for any owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee, managing agent, or other person, firm or corporation having the right to sell, rent, lease or sublease any housing accommodation, within the city of Chicago, or any agent of any of these, or any real estate broker licensed as such:\nA. To make any distinction, discrimination or restriction against any person in the price, terms, conditions or privileges of any kind relating to the sale, rental, lease or occupancy of any real estate used for residential purposes in the city of Chicago or in the furnishing of any facilities or services in connection therewith, predicated upon the race, color, sex, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status or source of income of the prospective or actual buyer or tenant thereof.\u201d Chicago Municipal Code \u00a7 5 \u2014 8\u2014030 (2003).\nThe Municipal Code defines \u201csource of income\u201d as \u201cthe lawful manner by which an individual supports himself and his or her dependents.\u201d Chicago Municipal Code \u00a7 5\u20148\u2014040 (2003) (adopting section 2 \u2014160\u2014020(m)).\nAt the Commission hearing, plaintiffs asserted that if a Section 8 voucher is held to constitute a source of income under the Fair Housing Ordinance, every landlord would be forced to involuntarily subject himself to the requirements of the Section 8 program whenever a prospective tenant wished to use Section 8 vouchers. In rejecting this argument, the Commission cited to its prior holdings \u201cthat a complainant can prove source of income discrimination by showing that they were denied a rental opportunity because they intended to make use of Section 8 funding.\u201d Sullivan-Lackey v. Godinez, CCHR No. 99\u2014H\u201489, at 5 (July 18, 2001), citing Smith v. Wilmette Real Estate & Management Co., CCHR Nos. 95\u2014H\u2014159 & 98 \u2014 H\u201444/63 (April 13, 1999); Smith v. Goodchild, CCHR No. 98\u2014H\u2014177 (April 13, 1999); Huff v. American Management & Rental Service, CCHR No. 97\u2014H\u2014187 (January 20, 1999); McGee v. Sims, CCHR No. 94\u2014H\u2014131 (October 18, 1995).\nThe trial court disagreed with the Commission and reversed its determination holding that the Fair Housing Ordinance does not explicitly require Section 8 compliance by landlords. The trial court discounted the Commission\u2019s interpretation, even though \u201c[cjourts will defer to an agency\u2019s interpretation of the statute that it is charged to enforce.\u201d Page v. City of Chicago, 299 Ill. App. 3d 450, 463 (1998). The Commission maintains that \u201csource of income\u201d is ambiguous and its interpretation is consistent with the plain language of the Fair Housing Ordinance.\nWe find that the circuit court erred in reversing the holding of the Commission. The term \u201csource of income\u201d under the Fair Housing Ordinance refers only to the lawful manner in which one supports oneself and does not elaborate on what means are included within the lawful manner of support. Therefore, it is logical and reasonable to consider Section 8 vouchers part of the lawful manner for one\u2019s support. Our interpretation is consistent with the policy of the Fair Housing Ordinance. See Chicago Municipal Code \u00a7 5 \u2014 8\u2014010 (2003) (\u201cthe policy of the city of Chicago [is] to assure [a] full and equal opportunity to all residents of the city to obtain fair and adequate housing for themselves *** without discrimination against them because of their *** source of income\u201d).\nMoreover, the Commission has gone beyond this finding to distinguish between landlords who object to Section 8 tenants and landlords who object to the burdens of Section 8 compliance. In doing so, the Commission created a test for the landlord to show that complying with the Section 8 program will impose more than a de minimis burden on him. Such a construction will avoid discrimination complaints when the landlord is objecting to a financial burden, rather than the tenant\u2019s source of income. In this case, plaintiffs did not challenge the Commission\u2019s finding that they failed to establish that accepting Sullivan-Lackey as a Section 8 tenant would subject them to a substantial financial burden.\nThe trial court also relied exclusively on the Seventh Circuit case, Knapp v. Eagle Property Management Corp., 54 F.3d 1272 (7th Cir. 1995). In Knapp, the Seventh Circuit interpreted the Wisconsin Open Housing Act (Wis. Stat. \u00a7 101.22(6) (1994)) and found that Section 8 vouchers do not fall under the \u201clawful source of income\u201d as provided in the statute. Knapp, 54 F.3d at 1282. However, the Wisconsin statute is not as broad in its definition as the Fair Housing Ordinance. The Wisconsin statute defined \u201clawful source of income\u201d as \u201cinclud[ing] but ... not limited to lawful compensation or lawful remuneration in exchange for goods or services provided, profit from financial investments, any negotiable draft, coupon, or voucher representing monetary value such as food stamps, social security, public assistance or unemployment compensation benefits.\u201d Knapp, 54 F.3d at 1282, quoting Wis. Adm. Code \u00a7 89.01(8) (1994). The Knapp court acknowledged that Section 8 assistance \u201ccould arguably be included within the Wisconsin Act,\u201d but \u201cdecline[d] to ascribe such an intent to the [Wisconsin] legislature\u201d because of potential problems in application. Knapp, 54 F.3d at 1282. In the present case, the Fair Housing Ordinance definition remains open as to the lawful manner of support.\nIn addition, in Knapp, the Seventh Circuit did not consider an interpretation of the term \u201clawful source of income\u201d by any Wisconsin court or administrative agency charged with enforcing the statute. By contrast, the Commission has been consistently interpreting \u201csource of income\u201d to include Section 8 vouchers since 1995. We note that the Seventh Circuit\u2019s construction of Wisconsin law is not binding on this court. See Sundance Homes, Inc. v. County of Du Page, 195 Ill. 2d 257, 276 (2001).\nFinally, the Knapp decision has been distinguished by state courts in Connecticut and New Jersey. See Comm\u2019n on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Sullivan Associates, 250 Conn. 763, 739 A.2d 238 (1999); Franklin Tower One, L.L.C. v. N.M., 157 N.J. 602, 725 A.2d 1104 (1999). In Sullivan Associates, the Connecticut Supreme Court declined to follow Knapp\u2019s implication in dicta that suggested that the federal legislation preempted the state\u2019s ability to broaden the program. Sullivan Associates, 250 Conn, at 774, 739 A.2d at 246; but see Knapp, 54 F.3d at 1282 (\u201c[i]t seems questionable, however, to allow a state to make a voluntary federal program mandatory\u201d). The New Jersey Supreme Court in Franklin Tower One was not persuaded by the Seventh Circuit in Knapp and distinguished the New Jersey statute from the Wisconsin statute where the New Jersey statute \u201cprohibited] discrimination based on the source of a lawful rent payment.\u201d Franklin Tower One, 157 N.J. at 619, 725 A.2d at 1112-13.\nWe decline to adopt the reasoning in Knapp that Section 8 vouchers are not included as a source of income discrimination. Based on the foregoing analysis, we find that Section 8 rental assistance vouchers are a \u201csource of income\u201d under the Fair Housing Ordinance.\nNext, defendants contend that the trial court erred in reversing the Commission\u2019s determination that plaintiffs discriminated against Sullivan-Lackey based on her source of income. In addressing defendants\u2019 contention, we apply the Commission\u2019s construction of the Fair Housing Ordinance to this case. A court may not overturn an administrative decision unless the authority of the administrative body was exercised in an arbitrary or capricious manner or the decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence. O\u2019Neil, 301 Ill. App. 3d at 400.\nThe Commission maintains that whether plaintiffs violated the ordinance turns on plaintiffs\u2019 reasons for refusing Sullivan-Lackey\u2019s Section 8 vouchers and whether any reason for the refusal implicated a substantial financial burden upon plaintiffs. Plaintiffs fail to address this test on appeal, instead asserting that they had insufficient notice as to applying to the Section 8 program and that they did not discriminate against Sullivan-Lackey since she was welcome as a tenant, as long as she did not use Section 8 vouchers to pay rent.\nThe Commission found that, based on the undisputed facts, plaintiffs discriminated against Sullivan-Lackey because they denied her the apartment based on the source of income with which she was going to pay rent. Plaintiffs did not submit any evidence to the Commission that they would be subjected to a substantial financial burden if they had to follow the Section 8 regulatory requirements. The Commission states that the two primary requirements for any Section 8 tenancy are that: (1) landlords must charge reasonable rent; and (2) the housing unit satisfies specified quality standards. The Commission\u2019s findings that (1) plaintiffs would not have been subjected to a substantial burden, and (2) plaintiffs discriminated against Sullivan-Lackey in denying her tenancy based on her source of income are not against the manifest weight of the evidence.\nWe find plaintiffs\u2019 further claim of insufficient notice without merit. The only authority cited by plaintiffs on this assertion relates to the strict construction of criminal or penal statutes (see People v. Woodard, 175 Ill. 2d 435 (1997); City of Chicago v. Morales, 177 Ill. 2d 440 (1997)), which is not relevant to the construction of the Fair Housing Ordinance. Moreover, the Supreme Court has allowed enactments with civil rather than criminal penalties to be less precise because the consequences of imprecision are qualitatively less severe. Village of Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc., 455 U.S. 489, 498-99, 71 L. Ed. 2d 362, 372, 102 S. Ct. 1186, 1193 (1982); accord Russell v. Department of Natural Resources, 183 Ill. 2d 434, 443 (1998).\nThe Commission has issued several rulings requiring landlords to seek Section 8 certification when approached by a Section 8 prospective tenant. Plaintiffs chose to enter the arena of renting residential property, and it is illogical for them to disavow knowledge as to the requirements imposed by such actions.\nFinally, Sullivan-Lackey maintains that the Commission\u2019s award of fees and costs was proper. Plaintiffs respond that the Commission has no authority to award civil damages. Plaintiffs\u2019 claim is unsupported by the statute.\nSection 2 \u2014 120\u2014510(1) of the Fair Housing Ordinance explicitly gives the Commission the authority:\n\u201cTo render a decision upon the conclusion of a hearing, or upon receipt of a hearing officer\u2019s recommendation at the conclusion of a hearing, including findings of fact relating to the complaint, and to order such relief as may be appropriate under the circumstances determined in the hearing. Relief may include but is not limited to an order: *** to pay actual damages, as reasonably determined by the Commission, for injury or loss suffered by the complainant; *** to pay to the complainant all or a portion of the costs, including reasonable attorney fees, expert witness fees, witness fees, and duplicating costs, incurred in pursuing the complaint before the Commission or at any stage of judicial review!.]\u201d Chicago Municipal Code \u00a7 2 \u2014 120\u2014510(1) (2003).\nAdditionally, section 7 \u2014 108(A) of the Illinois Human Rights Act provides:\n\u201cA political subdivision, or two or more political subdivisions acting jointly, may create a local department or commission as it or they see fit to promote the purposes of this Act and to secure for all individuals within the jurisdiction of the political subdivision or subdivisions freedom from unlawful discrimination, sexual harassment in employment and sexual harassment in higher education. The provisions of any ordinance enacted by any municipality or county which prohibits broader or different categories of discrimination than are prohibited by this Act are not invalidated or affected by this Act.\u201d 775 ILCS 5/7 \u2014 108(A) (West 2000).\nThe Act permits municipalities to pass antidiscrimination measures more sweeping in scope than Illinois law, and Chicago\u2019s fair housing provisions have been found to be expansive in scope. Becovic v. City of Chicago, 296 Ill. App. 3d 236, 239 (1998). Based on this authority, the Commission is authorized to award civil damages following hearings.\nHaving determined that fees and costs are an appropriate award, we note that the reasonableness of attorney fees requested is within the discretion of the trial court. Raintree Health Care Center v. Illinois Human Rights Comm\u2019n, 173 Ill. 2d 469, 494 (1996). We find the award of $16,284 in attorney fees is not an abuse of discretion when the amount is commensurate with the work done over the course of Sullivan-Lackey\u2019s complaint with the Commission, including hearings, depositions, and a conciliation hearing.\nFor the foregoing reasons, we reverse the circuit court of Cook County and reinstate the findings of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.\nJudgment reversed; order of the Commission reinstated.\nREID and NEVILLE, JJ., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "PRESIDING JUSTICE CAMPBELL" } ], "attorneys": [ "John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic, of Chicago (J. Damian Ortiz, of counsel), for appellants.", "Douglas W Graham and Fred M. Caplan, both of Chicago, for appellees." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "JULIO GODINEZ et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. JUNE E. SULLIVAN-LACKEY, Defendant-Appellant (The City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations, Defendant-Appellant).\nFirst District (5th Division)\nNo. 1\u201402\u20142101\nOpinion filed August 20, 2004.\nJohn Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic, of Chicago (J. Damian Ortiz, of counsel), for appellants.\nDouglas W Graham and Fred M. Caplan, both of Chicago, for appellees." }, "file_name": "0087-01", "first_page_order": 105, "last_page_order": 113 }