How to File a Housing Discrimination Complaint with HUD
Sep 22, 2020
60 Mins
Paul Flogstad
Housing discrimination complaints may be filed for up to one year after the discriminatory housing practice occurs or ends. However, it is best to file your complaint as soon as possible. After the filling of the complaint, HUD will investigate your claim. During this webinar by Paul FLogstad, you will learn the entire procedure in-depth and will learn how HUD will try to conciliate the claim before it goes to a final hearing.
Some of the penalties that HUD may instate if you are found guilty of discrimination include: To pay you money for actual damages, including out of pocket expenses, humiliation, and suffering caused by the discrimination. Actual damages mean money to compensate you for any injury you suffered as a result of the discrimination, including emotional distress; provide injunctive or other equitable relief—such as allowing you to rent or buy the dwelling; pay the federal government a civil penalty; and pay your attorney fees and costs, if you hired your own attorney.
Attending this important webinar, you will learn all the strategies of the complaint and what you can do to avoid a complaint in the first place.
More than 40 years after passage of the federal Fair Housing Act, housing discrimination continues to harm millions of Americans. The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (families with children under 18), or disability. This webinar will guide you on how to file a discrimination complaint with HUD.
This webinar covers many of the common issues facing property managers and property owners today. During this webinar, Paul will go over how to correctly document various tenant violations and strategies and techniques for documenting and solving resident violations. Also discussed are assistance animals and the latest rulings on verification. This has been a “hot topic” recently and you will receive guidance and what to do.
All of these problems are a daily occurrence at most properties. This session will give you fresh ideas to deal with the issues and the residents involved. You will learn to not run afoul of fair housing issues when dealing with these situations.
Correct documentation of the various violations is key. Paul will discuss what proof is needed when one has to go to court to evict a tenant.
Paul has been involved in the real estate industry for the past 38 years. He has been involved in sales, construction, project management, appraisal, mortgage consulting and brokerage, property management and property management consulting/training.
Through his consulting company, Property Management Solutions, he provides training and consulting services nationwide to owners, management companies, multi-housing associations, as well as state and federal agencies.
He specializes in fair housing issues and has developed fair housing and outreach programs for governmental agencies as well as conducting seminars which are presented to property management companies, apartment associations and the general public. He also conducts research analysis for impediments to fair housing for grantees of federal CDBG funds.
Most recently, he has been a consultant to the City of Sioux Falls and the State of South Dakota. In this assignment he has developed a fair housing awareness program that is one of the first of its kind in the nation. It involves a three pronged approach to fair housing awareness. This approach makes use of an ombudsman concept and has proven to be very effective in dealing with discrimination and landlord/tenant issues.
For over twenty years was involved in appraisal of residential, multi-family, farm and commercial properties throughout the Midwest. Most recently, he was a consultant for affordable, multi-housing properties in 22 different states. This involved properties in HUD, Rural Development, HOME and Tax Credit programs.
Paul was previously Vice President of the South Dakota Multi-Housing Association, Vice Chairman of the Minnehaha County Housing and Redevelopment Commission, and Chairman of the Sioux Falls Property Appeals Board. In 2009, he received the Outstanding Educator of the Year award from the South Dakota Multi-Housing
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