PHRC Reports Top Fair Housing Complaints
The top three fair housing-related complaints to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission in 2020-2021 were based on disability, race/color and retaliation.
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National Fair Housing Alliance Aims to Help Consumers Achieve Homeownership
The NFHA’s program Keys Unlock Dreams is an initiative dedicated to helping consumers overcome barriers by providing them with the resources and advice they need to build thriving, inclusive communities and make homeownership a reality for millions of people.
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How Past Housing Discrimination Still Affects Us Today
Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, spoke on a PAR webinar yesterday about how decades of housing segregation and discrimination are still impacting our country today.
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Assistance Animals: Your Most Pressing Questions, Answered
PAR has developed a new flowchart-style guide that lays out how to handle requests for reasonable accommodations regarding assistance animals.
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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Protected Classes in Real Estate
In Pennsylvania, several municipalities prohibit discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation or gender identity, as does the Realtor® Code of Ethics. However, this interpretation of the Fair Housing Act means that these protections are now the law of the land and applicable to most real estate transactions, regardless of the location and Realtor® involvement.
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Fair Housing Discrimination Based on Disabilities Still a Frequent Complaint in Pennsylvania
The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing providers from discriminating against people with disabilities, including refusing to make reasonable accommodations in policies or practices when such accommodations may be necessary to provide persons with disabilities an equal opportunity to use or enjoy a dwelling. This includes permitting persons with disabilities to have service animals or assistance animals. Housing providers may not prohibit people with disabilities from having assistance animals that perform work or tasks or that provide disability-related emotional support.
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Be an LGBTQ+ Ally in the Real Estate World
A recent Gallup poll showed that the 5.6% of Americans are LGBTQ+, up from 4.5% in 2017.
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Best of the Legal Hotline: What Pennsylvania Realtors® Are Asking About Fair Housing
“Do not be blindly following customers instructions,” said Desiree Brougher, a PAR attorney. “As a license, you are held to a higher standard of knowledge and behavior. Your job is to educate your clients and sometimes other Realtors® on fair housing laws. If your client is not willing to follow fair housing laws, it is OK to drop them.”
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Fair Housing: Are You Unconsciously Steering Clients?
“If an agent is treating one person better than another similarly situated person, and the difference between them is one of the seven categories in the Fair Housing Act, the agent has violated the law,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bill Dedman in a webinar with Pennsylvania Realtors®.
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Fair Housing Complaints Remain Steady, PHRC Reports
“Fair housing complaints have been steady,” said Adrian Garcia, PHRC’s director of fair housing and commercial property division. “With the pandemic, you might have thought there would have been a slowdown, but our regional offices are reporting that complaints have been steady.”
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