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Additional Resources
Resources from Advocates
- www.fairhousinglaw.org : This
site by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National Fair Housing
Alliance, Ad Council and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
was launched to help
make sure that renters and homebuyers know their rights
and how to spot illegal behavior by landlords or realtors.
- Priced Out in 2002:
Housing Crisis Worsens for People with Disabilities, a report by the Consortium
for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force (June 2003)
- The NIMBY Report has
been revived as joint venture of the Building
Better Communities Network and the National
Low Income Housing Coalition under the supervision of Michael Allen of
the Bazelon Center. The publication identifies local instances of community
opposition to housing or community-based services and successful strategies
to overcome this opposition.
- See also The
Fair Housing Act Is a Critical Tool in Expanding Housing Opportunities
for People with Disabilities, an article by Bazelon staff attorney
Michael Allen in the National Fair Housing Advocate.
- Boston's Technical Assistance Collaborative has
information and a listserv for health, housing and human service organizations
serving people with disabilities.
- The Olmstead Decision and Housing:
Opportunity Knocks is an extensive report on housing opportunities
for people with disabilities in the wake of the Olmstead Supreme Court
decision, produced by TAC and the Consortium
for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force.
- Bazelon Center intern Sarah Lawsky (Yale Law School, '01) published an
on-line article entitled Disregarding
Disability: The Effect of Sutton v. United Airlines on Litigation Under the
Fair Housing Amendments Act.
- For laws governing service dogs, see Psychiatric
Service Dog Society.
- The Coalition to Preserve the Fair Housing
Act has historical resources on Congress' attack on the
1988 Fair Housing Amendments Act and a guide, jointly produced with the
National Leage of Cities, to the siting
of group homes.
- The Housing Association of Delaware Valley has
a list of useful links on fair housing and community revitalization.
- Also see the National Fair Housing
Advocate Online, where you can find the Fair Housing Act, a
fair housing search engine (select Disability Discrimination under "Basis
for Action" and then select all the "Types of Transactions" for a list
of cases). The site also provides links for finding
private fair housing agencies and public fair housing enforcement agencies
all over the country at http://www.fairhousing.com/resources/finder/index.htm.
- the Building
Better Communities Network, an information clearinghouse and
communications forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and
to successfully siting
affordable housing and community services.
Federal Government Resources
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development seeks help in designing
HUD's Fair Housing Act accessibility training and technical guidance program.
If you were involved with the design or construction of residential housing
built after March 13, 1991, you may need to comply with these regulations.
Please share your experience and expertise regarding the accessibility
guidelines by completing a short
survey.
- HUD fair housing/discrimination page http://www.hud.gov/hdiscrim.html:
Useful link for anyone interested in filing a complaint. Also contains links
to proper addresses for filing complaints (by region).
- Housing discrimination
form that can be filled out and submitted on-line: http://mf.hud.gov:1025/netdynamics/ndNSAPI.nd/HUD903/pagHUDPrivacy
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