MHCO Article Topics
Picture this: A gay couple visits your leasing office asking about available one-bedroom apartments. There are two such apartments available, but your leasing agent shows the couple only one — because she's heard the neighboring resident use gay slurs and wants to keep the couple away from him. Since she's only trying to protect the couple, her actions don't violate fair housing law.
Situation: An Idaho landlord adopted a strict policy banning visitors from parking in spots reserved for tenants. In November 2016, two service providers, one black the other white, visited a tenant at the community.
Failure to make reasonable accommodations for a rental applicant or tenant with a disability is, perennially, the most common type of fair housing complaint, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all cases, according to HUD. Many, if not most of these complaints, involve assistance animals. So, that’s where we’ll start our analysis.
Spot the Discrimination Mistake
Answer: Here is a summary of ORS 90.260, the late fee statute. It answers the questions posed above.
(1) A landlord may impose a late charge or fee, however designated, only if: