Will you please do a program on HOA fair housing issues? I live in Michigan and live in a condo with a HOA run by a board. They seem to be untrained and or ignorent on issues of physical and mental disability. The Vice President of the HOA board demanded that I not bring my dog in and out through the common hallway. I pay a HOA fee every month and I am the owner of this condo- the common hallway is owned by all of us, including myself. They also complained about the cooking odors coming our of our condo and told us we could not cook our bone broth in our condo that we need to drink and cook with for our health issues (My husband and I both have health disabilities and our physician recommends this bone broth for us both.) Since that day we have been cooking our bone broth in our unheated garage across the driveway which is totally inconvenient for a man who no longer go up and down stairs and can barely walk due to his disability. These are just two examples of several more incidents.
There are too many people employed in elder and disabled housing who should be working in storage unit management. Would be a good addition to regulations to require training and certification.
Four employees of BHS unlawfully entered my place, took pictures, and stepped on all my things with dirty shoes. They never called me prior to trespassing. but after they violated my privacy. I am disabled, I couldn't walk, and I had to discharge from Rehabilitation Center. Much more happened. I am frighten to live here. I don't know what they were looking for or left in my place. Most of the time I sleep in my car. I have preponderance evidence what they do. Only this time the housing specialist called. Please, I need help or a contact. Thank you.
I have read and heard that it's hard for tenants to prove and win a housing discrimination lawsuit. Not to mention that most people can't afford an attorney. Yet there are so many training and informational videos for housing providers such as yours that urge them to be careful. Where do the 2 meet? Is it as hard for a tenant to prove and win a discrimination lawsuit?
Thank you so much for posting such an informative video. I am a young housing attorney in St. Louis, MO, and I've found these case recaps and observations very educational and helpful.
Just curious, would it be legal to add a charge to the rent for the expense of translation services? If neither party can understand without a translator, who is responsible for the cost of a translator?
Can Private subed PHAs create their own deduction amounts for minors and utilility deductions, refuse to give disability credit to under 65yrs, and no child care deduction for under 12yrs old? Count pre-tax 401k as part of Gross income despite subtracted from W2 wages, and locked in to employer mandatory state savings laws until retirement age or termination of employment?
Eight people in a two bedroom is crazy. Why do all the relatives have to be in the apartment? There are hotels for that purpose. This seems to be a way around the rules of the apartment complex. HUD will not be around to pay for the damages when this apartment is wrecked.
I once worked with a guy who came to the USA from a Soviet Union country. He, his wife, his son, and his daughter all lived in a one bedroom apartment. When I asked him about that as the children got older, he said in the Soviet Union they would have at least ten people sleeping in the same space as his apartment had. So there could be some cultural factors involved that we don’t necessarily grasp at first, in cases where we are seeing the number of occupants exceeding the normal occupancy policy.
i am the only asian, single woman with no man around in this 4plex apt and everyone else is hispanic including the landlord and property manager (son of landlord). these slumlord and the manger have harassed me so much i figured that no one has been treated the way i have been treated. for instance, i had severe water leak from the roof for 3momths and never had a roofer but the new tenant who is hispanic had a roofer sent over in the first place. the property manager has threatened me that he is no longer a manager and he will have his dad will “handle” me and i asked other tenants about it and no one was aware of it. is this enough evidence that i can report this bad landlord and the family to HUD? They deceived me the adu was legal and figured it is not. no certificate of occupancy and i opened cases with city last month and this month. As a retaliation the property manager locked me out last week.
Here's the Sept 2016 HUD Office of General Council's guidance regarding limited English proficiency and Fair Housing: www.hud.gov/sites/documents/LEPMEMO091516.PDF
Google translate with text messaging is a tool that helps to communicate when two parties do not have fluency / proficiency in a common language. Not perfect, but I don’t think a human translator will always be perfect either.
Will you please do a program on HOA fair housing issues? I live in Michigan and live in a condo with a HOA run by a board. They seem to be untrained and or ignorent on issues of physical and mental disability. The Vice President of the HOA board demanded that I not bring my dog in and out through the common hallway. I pay a HOA fee every month and I am the owner of this condo- the common hallway is owned by all of us, including myself. They also complained about the cooking odors coming our of our condo and told us we could not cook our bone broth in our condo that we need to drink and cook with for our health issues (My husband and I both have health disabilities and our physician recommends this bone broth for us both.) Since that day we have been cooking our bone broth in our unheated garage across the driveway which is totally inconvenient for a man who no longer go up and down stairs and can barely walk due to his disability. These are just two examples of several more incidents.
There are too many people employed in elder and disabled housing who should be working in storage unit management. Would be a good addition to regulations to require training and certification.
Four employees of BHS unlawfully entered my place, took pictures, and stepped on all my things with dirty shoes. They never called me prior to trespassing. but after they violated my privacy. I am disabled, I couldn't walk, and I had to discharge from Rehabilitation Center. Much more happened. I am frighten to live here. I don't know what they were looking for or left in my place. Most of the time I sleep in my car. I have preponderance evidence what they do. Only this time the housing specialist called. Please, I need help or a contact. Thank you.
I have read and heard that it's hard for tenants to prove and win a housing discrimination lawsuit. Not to mention that most people can't afford an attorney. Yet there are so many training and informational videos for housing providers such as yours that urge them to be careful. Where do the 2 meet? Is it as hard for a tenant to prove and win a discrimination lawsuit?
Thank you so much for posting such an informative video. I am a young housing attorney in St. Louis, MO, and I've found these case recaps and observations very educational and helpful.
Just curious, would it be legal to add a charge to the rent for the expense of translation services? If neither party can understand without a translator, who is responsible for the cost of a translator?
Can Private subed PHAs create their own deduction amounts for minors and utilility deductions, refuse to give disability credit to under 65yrs, and no child care deduction for under 12yrs old?
Count pre-tax 401k as part of Gross income despite subtracted from W2 wages, and locked in to employer mandatory state savings laws until retirement age or termination of employment?
Can vawa violations and fair housing violations be filed in state ?
Eight people in a two bedroom is crazy. Why do all the relatives have to be in the apartment? There are hotels for that purpose. This seems to be a way around the rules of the apartment complex. HUD will not be around to pay for the damages when this apartment is wrecked.
I once worked with a guy who came to the USA from a Soviet Union country. He, his wife, his son, and his daughter all lived in a one bedroom apartment. When I asked him about that as the children got older, he said in the Soviet Union they would have at least ten people sleeping in the same space as his apartment had.
So there could be some cultural factors involved that we don’t necessarily grasp at first, in cases where we are seeing the number of occupants exceeding the normal occupancy policy.
i am the only asian, single woman with no man around in this 4plex apt and everyone else is hispanic including the landlord and property manager (son of landlord). these slumlord and the manger have harassed me so much i figured that no one has been treated the way i have been treated. for instance, i had severe water leak from the roof for 3momths and never had a roofer but the new tenant who is hispanic had a roofer sent over in the first place. the property manager has threatened me that he is no longer a manager and he will have his dad will “handle” me and i asked other tenants about it and no one was aware of it.
is this enough evidence that i can report this bad landlord and the family to HUD?
They deceived me the adu was legal and figured it is not. no certificate of occupancy and i opened cases with city last month and this month. As a retaliation the property manager locked me out last week.
Here's the Sept 2016 HUD Office of General Council's guidance regarding limited English proficiency and Fair Housing: www.hud.gov/sites/documents/LEPMEMO091516.PDF
Google translate with text messaging is a tool that helps to communicate when two parties do not have fluency / proficiency in a common language. Not perfect, but I don’t think a human translator will always be perfect either.