Mei Ling v. City of Los Angeles

MEMORANDUM

Mei Ling appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to all the defendants in this case to her federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) claims and substantially similar state claims against the owners and managers of The Lofts and NoHo 14, and her Section 504 Rehabilitation Act claims against the City of Los Angeles (the “City”) and its Community Redevelopment Agency (the “CRA”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Doran v. 7-Eleven, Inc., 524 F.3d 1034, 1047 (9th Cir.2008), and we affirm.

We agree with the district court that Ling failed to present evidence that exempting her from the lottery for the affordable units at NoHo 14 was necessary to give Ling an equal opportunity to rent an affordable unit at NoHo 14. We also agree that it was not necessary for her to be offered a Pantages one-bedroom unit that was not part of the affordable program to be able to have an equal opportunity to enjoy a unit at The Lofts. Ling has also failed to show that it was reasonable to require The Lofts to either provide her a market-rate Pantages unit at an affordable price or renegotiate its covenant with the CRA to substitute a market-rate Pantages…