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Buy Photo U.S. Housing and Urban Development enforcement analyst Jerry Creamer , center, talks Wednesday during a meeting at City Hall in Farmington while Assistant City Manager Bob Campbell listens . (Photo: Jon Austria/The Daily Times) Buy Photo FARMINGTON — Officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development performed a site review today at the Apple Ridge Apartments , an 80- unit apartment complex  that has been the subject of increased scrutiny after a 64-year-old man's death at the facility in September. HUD spokesman Scott Hudman  said the inspection, which continues Thursday, will include a review of security, leasing policies, management practices, tenant-management relations and general maintenance of the complex, which is located at 1600 Cliffside Drive. He said he was not certain when the results of the review would be made available. "It will take them some time to synthesize the information and draw conclusions," Hudman said. The HUD inspec...

Washington, DC: (Aug-29-07) The Department of Justice brought charges against owners and operators of Apple Ridge Apartments (formerly known as Whispering Woods) in Livonia, MI, alleging that they discriminated against African Americans seeking to rent apartments at the complex. The Department of Justice lawsuit, which was handled jointly by attorneys from the Civil Rights Division and the US Attorney's Office, was filed in April 2006 and was consolidated with a suit filed by the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit one year earlier. The complaint alleged that General Properties Company , doing business as Whispering Woods and now Apple Ridge Apartments , and one of its owners, Elliott Schubiner, engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African American applicants for tenancy. In a settlement reached , Apple Ridge Apartments agreed to pay the Department of Justice $725,000 to resolve claims. The settlement will be court enforceable for at least five...