With the 2020 presidential election less than three months away, I had an interesting question hit my desk: can a property management company restrict residents from placing political signs on
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HUD Charges Georgia Property Owner With Disability Discrimination For Failure to Approve a Reasonable Accommodation Request Related to the Rental Due Date
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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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Answering Fair Housing Defense Blog Reader Questions/Comments
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Catching up with some Fair Housing Defense reader email this week. With the caveat that this blog entry does not constitute legal advice, here we go:
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COVID Eviction Pause Update — Check With Your Local Court
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As written here and elsewhere, navigating traditional landlord/tenant legal matters during the past few months has been complicated. Management wants and needs to have compassion for all of our residents…
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HUD Awards Over $40 Million for Fair Housing Enforcement and Training
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If professional apartment management thought that fair housing enforcement would stop because of a global pandemic, well – think again. Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development…
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HUD Charges Wisconsin Property Owner/Manager with Disability Discrimination Related to an Assistance Animal
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Pursuant to a release issued last week, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) stated it charged the owner and manager of apartment homes in Wisconsin with housing…
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HUD Settles Racial Discrimination Fair Housing Case for $35,000
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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved a $35,000 settlement agreement resolving a fair housing complaint filed against the owner and manager of apartment communities on…
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Supreme Court Expands Employment Anti-Discrimination Laws to Protect the LGBTQ Community. Fair Housing is Likely Next.
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In a decision which will likely expand the scope of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) by analogy, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded earlier today that a 1960’s era civil…
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COVID-19: One Request is a Reasonable Accommodation and One is Not (But May Be Worth a Compassionate Release)
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I wanted to offer up two related COVID-19 fair housing scenarios I have seen recently in my discussions with apartment management clients.
As written here (and elsewhere) regularly, our Fair…
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COVID-19 and Housing Eviction Proceedings
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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…
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