Riedel v. HUMAN REL. COM'N OF READING

OPINION

NIGRO, Justice.

Appellant, the Human Relations Commission of the City of Reading (“Commission”), appeals from the order of the Commonwealth Court reversing the trial court’s determination that Appellee Augustus Riedel had committed an unlawful housing practice in violation of the City of Reading’s Human Relations Ordinance (“Ordinance”). For the reasons outlined below, we reverse.

From September, 1992 through November, 1994, Millicent Ferrer, who is Hispanic, and her two young children were tenants in an apartment in a row home in the City of Reading. The Ferrer family lived directly…