NewsBreak By Jill Jordan Sieder,
A North Texas homeowners association now faces two federal lawsuits alleging that it tried to kick out hundreds of Black residents who rely on government housing vouchers to pay their rent, and subjected them to racial harassment and intimidation.
The harassment included posts on unofficial social media sites for the Town of Providence Village, a suburban neighborhood of single-family homes north of Dallas, in which Black residents were called “ghetto,” “wild animals,” and “lazy entitled leeching TR@SH,” and blamed for crime and other perceived problems.
According to a federal lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Texas in April, one such post included a photo of a Black man with a rope around his neck, with the caption “This one is not coming back tomorrow.”
Other threatening posts were directed at female voucher tenants, including one that said, “get your section 8 asses out of town now bitches [explosion emoji] and don’t let the door hit you in your fat ass mouths!”
The racial hostility on display in such posts ramped up when the Providence Homeowners Association (PHOA) proposed new rules in 2021 to address a perception by its board of directors that the number of rental units in their community was growing and that voucher-holding renters were causing an increase in crime that could impact property values…
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