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This month’s lesson is dedicated to helping you root out potential accessibility violations while you still have time to resolve them. First, we’ll explain the different accessibility laws that may apply to your property and the basic design standards they require you to meet. Then, we’ll point out 10 of the most common accessibility pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Website accessibility is rapidly emerging as the next big thing in fair housing liability.
Like any other consumer-facing business, multifamily housing providers need a good website that online shoppers can use to scope out their product. But while most landlords understand its business importance, many landlords overlook the fair housing risks that come with having a website.
What Would You Do? Neighbors complain that a tenant is keeping Binky, a loud and menacing-looking pit bull, in her apartment in violation of your community’s no-pets policy. You ask the tenant to get rid of the dog or you may have to evict her. She becomes flustered and insists that she has a disability and needs Binky for emotional and physical support. But the tenant seems perfectly healthy, both physically and mentally, and this is the first time she’s ever mentioned anything about having a disability.
While it may seem like routine business, responding to transfer requests may have significant fair housing implications.
Let’s play a quick game of fair housing word association in the multifamily leasing context:
Housing discrimination.
For many, this phrase summons up images of landowners seeking to avoid leasing their property to persons of particular races, nationalities, or other protected characteristics. And that, in a sense, is rental housing discrimination in its traditional form.
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