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In our March 2012 lesson, Fair Housing Coach explains how to meet the disability-related needs of individuals with mobility impairments under fair housing law. Communities should expect increased demand to meet those requirements with the influx of returning veterans—many with service-related disabilities—as well as the predicted increase in age-related disabilities of baby boomers and their parents.
HUD recently announced new regulations intended to ensure that HUD's core housing programs are open to all eligible persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. The new regulations, published as a final rule in theFederal Register this week, will go into effect in 30 days.
The Center for Housing Leadership at Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc. (HOME) recently released the 2011 Virginia Housing Statistics Snapshot, an annual report on the housing market in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Authored by Brian Koziol, HOME’s Housing Policy & Research Analyst, the report compiles important housing data on affordability, home ownership, income, mortgage lending, foreclosures, and housing discrimination in Virginia.
A resident in a senior living community had multiple sclerosis and used an electric wheelchair. The community claimed that, throughout her tenancy, she routinely operated the wheelchair at excessive speeds and without adequate control. Allegedly, she damaged the walls and front door to her unit and hurt two people with her electric wheelchair—once by driving over a staff member’s foot and then running into a dining room table, causing hot coffee to spill on another resident.
In the February lesson, Fair Housing Coach examines the fair housing implications of the latest trend: the rapid increase in multigenerational living arrangements.
A South Jersey condo association recently settled allegations that it unlawfully discriminated against a resident with a disability by failing to accommodate her disability, announced the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights.
The long-term resident had a debilitating lung illness and had a Permanent Disabled Parking Permit issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. She generally parked in a “handicapped” parking space close to her unit in the residents’ parking lot.
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