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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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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NAR Launches Fair Housing Simulation
Recently launched by the National Association of Realtors®, Fairhaven is a fictitious town in which you will be put to the test virtually while encountering discrimination throughout various real estate scenarios.
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Clients and discrimination
It’s not preachy to tell your client that discrimination in housing is unlawful and subjects them to substantial adverse consequences. Remind him that your own participation in such a practice is unlawful and therefore you will not promote that practice.
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NAR Legislative Meetings highlight key Realtor® issues
Pennsylvania Realtors® met with about 16 members of Congress and/or their staffs last week to outline some of NAR’s priority issues.
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