A Wisconsin landlady violated the Fair Housing Act when she refused to rent a house to a single mother because, among other things, she did not have a man “to shovel the snow,” the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is alleging in a lawsuit on behalf of the mom.

The name of the single mother was redacted in a public release but HUD alleges the woman asked property manager Darlene Dovenberg about renting a La Crosse County home and was told that she couldn’t see the property because she did not have a man around the house. READ MORE