 The district, meanwhile, is expecting the update to help them address transportation issues and overcrowded classrooms. Scott Gellman, WTOP News. A pattern of gender-based housing discrimination and sexual harassment involving demands for sex in exchange for rent. Those are just some of the accusations made in a new civil lawsuit filed against an Eastern Shore landlord and his company, Mount Vernon Group. The lawsuit is the first filed by Maryland's Attorney General's new Civil Rights Division.