Age Restriction Pulled for G'town Housing -- '77 Court Ruling Keeps City From Limit in Retiree Households

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › October 05, 2007

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Because a grandmother in Ohio was sentenced to jail and fined more than 30 years ago for allowing a grandson to live with her, Germantown can't enforce an age restriction on retirement housing in the city.

The grandmother's case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1977 decided that East Cleveland, Ohio, couldn't use its housing ordinance to dictate which members of a family could live together.

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Age Restriction Pulled for G'town Housing -- '77 Court Ruling Keeps City From Limit in Retiree Households

In Germantown, that court ruling means that the city could not prevent someone younger th...

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