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This month, as the Justice Department recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The initiative includes an interagency task force with HUD to combat sexual harassment in housing, an outreach toolkit, and a public awareness campaign.
April 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), the landmark federal law that bans housing discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status.
Lawmakers in the state of Washington are considering a bill that would prevent landlords from discriminating against tenants based on the source of their income. Twelve states already prohibit source-of-income discrimination against tenants.
In January, the Coach kicked off 2018 by offering five New Year’s resolutions to avoid fair housing trouble. Among them: complying with fair housing rules protecting children and their families from housing discrimination.
Q: Most of your residents are over 55, so you’re allowed to exclude families with children and market your property as an “adult” community under the senior housing exemption. True or false?
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...
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