Generally, the Fair Housing Act applies to a broad range of persons and entities, including public housing agencies, property owners, landlords, housing managers, real estate agents, brokerage service agencies, and banks.
The Fair Housing Act prohibits a broad range of discriminatory activities and statements. Persons and entities covered by the Fair Housing Act are prohibited from discriminating against applicants or residents because of their disability or the disability of anyone associated with them and from treating persons with disabilities less favorably than others because of their disability.
For more information, see Fair Housing Act Overview. Section of the Rehabilitation Act provides that no qualified individual with disabilities should, solely by reason of his or her disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
Section covers all programs and activities of recipients of HUD financial assistance, including, for example:. Section broadly covers all recipients and subrecipients of HUD financial assistance.
Any subrecipient of federal financial assistance is considered a recipient for purposes of Section compliance. An entity or person receiving housing assistance payments from a recipient on behalf of eligible families under a housing assistance payments program or a voucher program is not a recipient or sub-recipient merely by virtue of receipt of such payments. This includes any assistance provided or otherwise made available by the Department through a grant, loan, contract or any other arrangement, including funds, services of federal personnel, or real or personal property or any interest in or use of such property.
Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Section This list is not exhaustive. The ADA is a comprehensive civil rights law for persons with disabilities. Title II of the ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in all programs, services, and activities provided or made available by public entities state and local governments and special purpose districts.
This includes housing when the housing is provided or made available by a public entity regardless of whether the entity receives federal financial assistance. Title III of the ADA prohibits private entities that own, lease to and from , and operate places of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of disability and requires places of public accommodation and commercial facilities to be designed, constructed, and altered in compliance with established accessibility standards.
Public accommodations at housing developments include any public areas that are open to the general public, such as a rental office. Public accommodations would also include, for example, shelters and social service establishments. Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any 1 individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; 2 individual with a record of such impairment; or 3 individual who is regarded as having such an impairment.
In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV , developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.
The council shall consist of seven members, to be known as council members, who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and one of whom shall be designated as chairperson by the Governor. The Director of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing shall serve as a nonvoting ex-officio member of the council.
AB Effective January 1, Any member chosen to fill a vacancy on the council occurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the member whose vacancy is being filled. Four members of the council shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting the business thereof.
Any member of the council may be removed by the Governor for inefficiency, for neglect of duty, misconduct or malfeasance in office, after being given a written statement of the charges and an opportunity to be heard thereon.
SB Effective June 27, Operative January 1, , by Sec. Government Code - GOV.
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