• Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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Towson U. Faces Lawsuit Over Wheelchair Access to Privately Owned Housing

A student with muscular dystrophy is suing Towson University over what he says is its failure to provide him with wheelchair-accessible housing. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal district court in Baltimore, alleges that virtually none of the 108 units in the campus’s privately owned Millennium Hall apartments meet the accessibility requirements of the federal Fair Housing Act, according to the Baltimore Sun.

The state university maintains that it is not responsible for student housing it does not own, even if the housing is on college property. Millennium Hall is owned by the nonprofit Collegiate Housing Foundation under a long-term ground lease with the university.