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The Justice Department recently announced a new initiative to combat sexual harassment in housing. The initiative specifically seeks to increase the department’s efforts to protect women from harassment by landlords, property managers, maintenance workers, security guards, and other employees and representatives of rental property owners.
Q: You could face a fair housing complaint for allowing only one occupant to live in studio units. True or false?
A: True. In October 2017, a court ordered the owner of a Washington community to pay more than $127,000 in damages for violating federal, state, and local fair housing laws based on familial status by enforcing an occupancy policy al...
Q: It’s illegal to refuse to rent to any minority prospects, but you can’t get into fair housing trouble if you bend the truth about available units when they ask about vacancies. True or false?
On June 16, Fair Housing Coach received the Gold Award for Best Newsletter from the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE). A panel of expert judges from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University selected the award winners announced at NAREE’s annual conference in Denver last week, from a record number of entries.
Senators Al Franken (D-MN) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) recently reintroduced legislation called the “Fair Housing for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors Act.” It builds on the protections provided under the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by establishing “a nationwide standard that victims of domestic violence and sexual assault cannot be evicted or denied access to housing solely for being victims of those...
Q: You could get into fair housing trouble if you turn away prospects because they don’t speak English. True or false?
A: True. Fair housing experts warn that you should never refuse to show or rent housing just because of an applicant’s limited ability to speak, read, write, or understand English.
April is Fair Housing Month, the time of the year when the nation marks the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the landmark law passed shortly after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. To mark the occasion, Fair Housing Coach gets back to basics with an overview of fair housing law.
Q: Your community must consider a request for an assistance animal even if the resident doesn’t appear to be disabled. True or false?
A: True. If the resident has a qualifying disability and has a disability-related need for the animal, then you must grant the resident’s reasonable request to make an exception to your pet policies so...
Q: Do you have to allow residents to run a day care in rental property?
A: Depending on state law, the answer may be yes, according to a recent ruling by a court in California. Under California law, landlords generally must allow use of rental property as a “family day-care home” for six or fewer children, provided that notice is giv...
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