The National Fair Housing Alliance’s 2018 Fair Housing Trends Report says the majority of fair housing complaints in 2017 involved discrimination against a person with disabilities, totaling 56.7% of all cases. The report points out discrimination related to disability is easier to detect because the discriminatory action often involves denied requests for reasonable accommodation.
The second most reported type of complaint was discrimination on the basis of race, totaling 18.5% of all cases.
The study also reports that housing discrimination occurs more in the rental market than any other types of real estate transactions, as it’s the most common and frequent type of housing transaction. In 2017, discrimination in rental transactions totaled 17,989 complaints, which makes up 87.4% of all transaction types.
Read the 2018 report and visit nationalfairhousing.org/reports-research to access reports from past years.
I do think it is unfair for a disabled person who is not readily recognized as such to lease a home built on a pier and beam foundation with 8 steps to enter any of the multiple doors to the home. Afterwards, the disabled person requested ramps to enter front and back doors and handrails on both sides of said ramps. The owner complied for fear of having ADA violations, but he felt that the tenant’s Realtor could have shown more readily accessible comparable homes on the same block. Then the owner had to fight the HOA who disliked the… Read more »
My experience has been: Disabled residents have more free “legal assistance” available to them than others do and are more often “coached” to use the threat of a discriminatory complaint as a club to get special “reasonable” accommodations. As a result, when they don’t receive the accommodation, they move forward and file a formal complaint which triggers an investigation by a state or federal employee who is typically viewed as a legal advocate for the disabled resident with great punitive powers reserved for a government entity. The property owner and his insurance company are then placed in a David vs.… Read more »
Totally agree!
I have a situation where I am managing a property for an owner who lives in another state. The tenant moved in with her husband and 4 handicapped children that she takes care of through Foster care. Soon after moving in, the husband moved out (after trying to repair a broken water faucet that turned into a huge repair bill for the owner). The tenant started having one repair after another, then the third time that it was the same repair, the owner said he wouldn’t pay for any more repairs caused by the tenants. Now the tenant’s daughter has… Read more »
sheila, why have you not have them evicted? Contact an attorney (there’s plenty of them) who is an expert in real estate evictions and allow them to do what they’re trained and taught to do.
I just reviewed this report. I am surprised and quite irritated that the TAR staff would approved linking this report to the TAR website. At first glance the title of the article led me to believe that this would be a government report and yes, even the organization name: The National Fair Housing Alliance sounds like a government-santioned agency. But it is not. Quote: “Today NFHA is a consortium of more than 220 private, non-profit fair housing organizations, state and local civil rights agencies, and individuals from throughout the United States…and hopes to aid in the creation of diverse, barrier… Read more »