The new $1 million settlement by a ...

The new $1 million settlement by a well-known architectural firm and a prominent developer should succor as a chilling warning that the disabilities community and the U Justice Department are deadly serious when it ensues to enforcing the accessibility regulations of the federal Fair Housing Act.

in subordination to the agreement, Gensler Architecture Design & Planning, successor corporation to the firm of the late Harry Weese, and developer John gallant Co., both of Chicago, will have to retrofit 227 noncompliant apartments in a 24-story, 283-unit erection in Evanston, Ill. These