Here is a fact pattern professional apartment management should work to avoid. An applicant signs a lease for an apartment home. Rent is due on the first of the month.
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COVID-19: Reasonable Accommodation or Compassionate Medical Termination
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I have heard from two clients with variations on what I suspect may be the next type of request professional apartment management receives from residents during this time of the…
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HUD Settles Disability Housing Discrimination Case For Approximately $11,000
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced resolution of a housing discrimination case from California for just under $11,000. The complainants are a family with…
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HUD Settles Disability Discrimination Case Concerning Mold and Retaliation for $6,000
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) announced it settled a fair housing case from California involving allegations of disability discrimination related to the remediation…
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Some Thoughts On Financial Accommodations Designed as Reasonable Accommodations
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Three properties I represent (two on the west coast and one on the east coast) are currently involved with residents who separately have submitted reasonable accommodation requests to their respective…
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HUD Resolves Disability Discrimination FHA Case for $12,000
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) announced settlement of a disability discrimination Fair Housing Act (FHA) case from San Francisco, CA. A family filed a…
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HUD Charges New York Property Owners With Disability Discrimination Over an Alleged Assistance Animal
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In a case filed last week, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) formally charged property owners in Syracuse, New York with violating the Fair Housing Act (FHA)…
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Assistance Animals and Guests? Here Are Some General Guidelines.
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I have used this space (and elsewhere) to discuss various issues involving service and emotional support animals for apartment community residents. Included in that, of course, is that management must…
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Court Issues Guidance Concerning Evaluating When an Animal Might Be a “Direct Threat”
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When evaluating assistance animal requests from our residents, one of the issues faced by apartment leasing offices across the country is what to do if the animal is believed to…
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Are There Exemptions to the FHA’s Design and Construction Requirements for New Multifamily Housing?
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A Fair Housing Defense blog reader asked me for some guidance on the design and construction requirement for new apartment communities (and if there are exceptions to these requirements).
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