Can they be sued for discrimination against poor people?
He voluntarily signed and read the contract.
Whether one agrees or disagrees that this as a policy is immaterial.
It was something in their contracts, all people living there signed the agreements, its a policy they have had a very long time, so its not anything newly created to discriminate against anyone there now.
You don’t like a contract term, you either get it crossed out, or amended, or you don’t sign the contract.
I doubt it has anything to do with discrimination or racism. Rather I suspect it is entirely about money. It’s always about money and you need to follow the money trail.
More to the point, I believe the landlord has an agreement with the towing company for kickbacks and deliberately put the car maintenance issue into every rental agreement so they can arbitrarily tow anybody’s car for any reason, and they get 50% of the tow fee.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the property owner and towing company(ies) are owned by memebers of the same family or clan (think India).
Suggest the victims (tenants) get a good lawyer and file and class action lawsuit.
JMHO.
LAV
Poor people are not a protected class of people. Poor people are discriminated against ( legal) every day. Maybe if they were that poor Fath shouldn’t have rented to them and they need to tighten up their screening process.