Sexual advances often underreported

• Nonetheless, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says it received 155 claims of sexualharassment of tenants nationwide in 2016.
• Jeniece Jones, executive director of the Cincinnati tenant advocacy Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME), says the Queen City has seen its share of that conduct.
• In 2008, a now-former landlord in Cincinnati paid $1 million to settle what was then – and might still be – the government’s biggest civil penalty for sexual harassment of tenants.
• Last month, a 40-year-old Price Hill woman claimed that her landlord, John Klosterman, came on to her after she moved into an apartment he owns on Delhi Avenue in Sedamsville, on Cincinnati’s West Side.
• He says he has never been accused of sexual harassment in his 35 years as a landlord in the Sedamsville area.

Source: Florida Realtors