Green

INTRODUCTION

19 In this disability-discrimination action, defendants move for summary judgment. For 20 the reasons below, the motion is GRANTED.

STATEMENT

22 The essence of this case is that the landlord evicted plaintiff for failure to pay rent, not 23 on account of his race. Plaintiff has also failed to show the landlord neglected to accommodate 24 his disability. Beginning in December 2016, plaintiff Rodney Green, Sr., an African American 25 man, rented a unit at East Leland Court Apartments owned and operated by defendants Mercy 26 Housing, Inc., Mercy Housing Management Group, Inc., and Mercy Housing California

XXXVIII. Plaintiff depended on a walking cane for mobility and also needed an in-home care

28 giver (Compl. ¶¶ 6–11). When plaintiff entered into his lease agreement, defendants told him he would receive accessible parking. When he moved in, however, defendants had already leased the parking spaces closest to plaintiff’s unit to a daycare center while he received a space a further from his unit. The building property manager also accused plaintiff’s son — who visited plaintiff to provide in-home health care — of engaging in criminal…