With just a few days left in May, apartment owners, management companies, and residents are set to deal with another month of rents due in a global pandemic. The good…
Continue Reading COVID-19 and Housing Eviction Proceedings

In a press release issued last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved a settlement agreement concluding a disability housing discrimination complaint against the owners and…
Continue Reading HUD Settles Disability Discrimination Fair Housing Act Case for $80,000

Although the economic and personal impact of the global pandemic continues to dominate the headlines, I am seeing HUD (as well as various state, city, and county agencies) ramping up…
Continue Reading Conciliation and the Fair Housing Act

The United States Congress (as well as any number of state, city, and county legislatures) have been at work on various pandemic relief efforts (as they should be).  As these…
Continue Reading How The Next Set of Pandemic Relief Efforts May Impact The Apartment Management Industry

For many Americans who live in apartment homes, rent for May 2020 is due tomorrow. As noted earlier this month, a best guess is that around 70% of residents made…
Continue Reading COVID-19: May 2020 Rent and Other Questions

I will get back to how the pandemic is impacting the professional apartment management industry in my next post, but I wanted to note that at the end of March,…
Continue Reading HUD Settles California Sexual Harassment Fair Housing Case for $63,000

As I type this from my basement office, reports are that somewhere between 25% to 33% of renters did not pay their full monthly rent on or about April 1.
Continue Reading COVID-19: Communicate With Your Residents About Rent and Financial Circumstances

Most likely lost in the COVID-19 news obviously dominating the world right now, last week the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it awarded $40 million…
Continue Reading HUD Awards $40 Million in Fair Housing Grants