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Last week, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a series of initiatives to beef up enforcement of the state’s fair housing law. These initiatives are the latest aggressive actions to protect the state’s most vulnerable individuals from illegal housing practices, according to the announcement. These efforts include:
In the March 2016 lesson, Fair Housing Coach features 37 tips to help you and your staff prevent fair housing trouble at your community. Fair housing law can get pretty complicated, but the tips included in this lesson cover management strategies to ensure fair housing compliance, along with training tips so all your staff members understand what they should—and shouldn’t—do to head off potential problems. Here’s a sampl...
Q: You must consider a resident’s request to allow a member of her household who has a mobility impairment to park in accessible space reserved for visitors, instead of the space assigned to that unit. True or false?
Q: A resident reports that his upstairs neighbor has been harassing him because of his race. If you ignore his complaint, your community could be sued for harassment under fair housing law. True or false?
Q: Your community recently broke ground on a renovation project. A few weeks into the construction, you receive a request from a resident for a transfer to another unit away from the construction as a reasonable accommodation. The resident, who lives on the first floor near the project, says that he has post-traumatic stress disorder related to his time in military service and that the noise from the construction is ...
The Coach recently examined fair housing requirements in 30 of the nation’s largest cities. The focus on local fair housing laws will only intensify in large cities—where the rental population is booming, but many struggle to find available units, according to a new report.
Q: A resident keeps calling about the status of a reasonable accommodation request she just submitted. The last time, she got nasty, calling you names and threatening to sue you if you don’t give her what she wants. Try as you might, you lost your patience and said that you don’t think she’s disabled anyway—and that she might be better off living somewhere else. You could be accused of a fair ...
On June 26, Fair Housing Coach was awarded First Place, 2015 Best Newsletter, by the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE), at their annual conference in Miami, Fla.
The judges, a panel of experts from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, singled out Contributing Editor Carol Johnson Perkins’ articles on how housing providers can avoid discriminating against:
In the July issue on fair housing requirements in the nation’s largest cities, the Coach emphasized the importance of keeping track of changes to state and local fair housing laws. In Austin, Texas, for example, local lawmakers adopted an ordinance banning discrimination based on source of income, including Section 8 housing vouchers.
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin recently marked the anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act by declaring April Fair Housing Month and signing two housing protection bills into law. One bill, H.123, ensures mobile home parks are safely maintained and abandoned mobile homes can be dealt with fairly and expeditiously. The other, H.256, corrects and confirms protections against retaliation for exercising fair housing rights.
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