{"id":1246,"date":"2013-12-11T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentpost.com\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2013-12-11T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:00:34","slug":"fair-housing-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentpost.com\/blog\/realestate-news\/fair-housing-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Housing Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year, the National Fair Housing Alliance compiles a report outlining the issues of that year. The 2013 Fair Housing Trends Report <\/a>has just come out and indicates that complaints are actually up by about 5%. In 2012, the report shows that there were about 28, 518 complaints total. Additionally, this report does include those that were investigated by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/a>, the US Department of Justice<\/a>, nonprofit fair housing organizations, and other state and local governmental agencies.<\/p>\n

According to HUD, however, this report doesn’t even cover it all. They say that this probably doesn\u2019t even represent about 1% of the 4 million acts of housing discrimination that violate the\u00a0Fair Housing Act.<\/a>\u00a0Reasons for this are cited as being people not reporting because they either do not know how, fear retaliation, or they just don\u2019t think anything will change if they do.<\/p>\n

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Some are calling for an update of the Fair Housing Act, originally drafted in 1968 because reports did increase exponentially of discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, income and marital status. The current act doesn\u2019t cover those classes, which then falls onto state law to protect. Currently, 29 states haven\u2019t even outlawed sexual orientation discrimination, and 38 haven\u2019t outlawed discrimination based on income. There are 34 states which haven\u2019t passed any protections for gender identity, and 28 states have no laws against discrimination based on marital status.<\/p>\n

According to the report, also, disability complaints are still high, because, \u201cMany apartment owners make direct comments refusing to make reasonable accommodations or modifications for people with disabilities so discrimination is easier to detect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Of the 9,017 cases that HUD dealt with, 1,226 of them were closed adminstratively. Withdrawal of claims or settlement happened in 3,346 of these cases.<\/p>\n

As we have mentioned before, you can protect yourself and also your tenants by having your fair housing practices listed. You can also provide reasonable accommodation- which under the law would include handicapped parking, ramps, and other provisions for the disabled. It is extremely important for your protection that you and your employees are all well aware that even what they may think is a benign statement can cause big problems: so teach them appropriate behavior and language in any case where discrimination may be a factor.<\/p>\n

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