The more things change, the more they stay the same – or do they? With the ever-expanding list of protected classes, the proposed (and in some areas, actual) elimination of heretofore generally accepted rental qualifying standards, the more expansive interpretation of what the protected classes actually protect, and the increasing promotion of social engineering initiatives marketed as the ‘expansion” of fair housing and civil rights, what will compliance look like in the coming years? 

This webinar will look at some of the most noteworthy fair housing cases, guidance and issues of 2022 as well as my Fair Housing Forecast for 2023, including:

• Will any Rental Qualifying Standards survive Disparate Impact Theory scrutiny?
• Criminal Background Checks: Stricter guidelines, conditional approvals and outright bans on any checks at all
• The continuing expansion of the 1974 protected class of Sex
• It's Still a Zoo Out There: Managing Faux Assistive Animal Requests
• Fair Housing, Civil Rights and Social Engineering: Where do the lines blur?
• Seven Figures and Counting: The rising cost of fair housing non-compliance.

Webinar Objectives

• Review of Fair Housing Compliance fundamentals
• How can we “future-proof” our rental qualifying standards?
• How to effectively manage the increasing complicated area of disability-related accommodation and modification requests.
• How to prevent staffing shortages and new to the industry hires from slipping into non-compliance.
• How to effectively “push back” on internet-purchased assistive animal credentials and get the information you need from a reliable source.

Webinar Highlights

• A review of the basics of fair housing compliance
• The ever-increasing protected class of disability and how it impacts our compliance efforts
• Disposition of recent fair housing cases and filed complaints
• Will the theory of Disparate Impact negate all qualifying standards?
• Does advocacy ever become social engineering?
• What does 2023 have in store for fair housing compliance?

Who Should Attend?

On-site and multi-site Property Managers; Marketing and Leasing Directors and Training and Development Professionals.