I suppose most of us are fairly used to reading the morning paper (or in this case, going to the website for the morning paper) and being angered and sickened by this point...after all, it seems like new lows are hit every day. But this is just above and beyond...
Ken Ubriaco lives in St. John, Indiana about a mile directly south of me. I've never met him, and never even heard his name before this morning. He wanted to share his home with a few people who have Multiple Sclerosis. Sounds like a pretty noble thing to do, right? Who would have a problem with that?
His neighbors, including the Town Council President, apparently had a big problem with it, as his request for a variance got denied, with the neighbors siting "property values" and "traffic problems". Now the town is getting sued by the Feds for violating the US Fair Housing Act. I'm not going to go and summarize the whole article, as the link is below and frankly I'm a little lazy. I'll just leave you with the part of the article that just made me bang my head into the desk repeatedly.
The lawsuit says that Fryzel's (the Town Council President) wife, Debra Fryzel, publicly opposed the request and "revealed ... discomfort over having persons with disabilities as neighbors." The town did not provide a copy of her letter opposing the request to The Times.
Property values and traffic concerns, eh? Sounds more like they want to keep their homogeneous little suburb exactly that way, and reject whoever doesn't look exactly like themselves.
Here's the link to the original article. Decide for yourself. Feds sue St. John in housing dispute.