CD6: Fair Housing
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The Fair Housing Act

• Examine fair housing law from a historical perspective
• Understand the history of residential segregation
• Identify the exemptions to the federal Fair Housing Act
• Analyze the Fair Housing Act's discriminatory housing practices
• Analyze HUD's interpretations of the Fair Housing Act's discriminatory housing practices

The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988

• Analyze the need for the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988
• Examine the changes made in enforcement of the new law
• Understand familial status discrimination
• Learn the exemptions for "housing for older persons"
• Analyze the factors in developing reasonable occupancy standards
• Learn the definition of handicap
• Analyze the HUD regulations concerning handicap
• Examine the design and construction requirements for new housing
• Explain the HUD and NAR positions on AIDS disclosure
• Compare the Americans with Disabilities Act with the Fair Housing Amendments Act

Fair Housing Advertising

• Analyze the Fair Housing Act's prohibition of discriminatory advertising
• State the potential defendants in a fair housing advertising complaint
• Analyze judicial interpretations of the Fair Housing Act
• Examine the HUD advertising guidelines
• Create protected class sensitive advertising

Fair Housing Enforcement

• Describe the enforcement options
• Examine who has standing to sue under the Fair Housing Act
• Describe how testers are utilized in the enforcement process
• Compare disparate treatment and disparate impact discrimination theories
• Analyze the HUD enforcement procedure
• Review the enforcement role of the Justice Department
• Explain the process of filing a civil suit in federal District Court

Fair Housing Case Law

• Understand how HUD and the courts are continuing to develop and implement fair housing law
• Recognize discriminatory housing practices through case study analysis
• Examine the nature of damage awards from both HUD and the courts
• Determine what relief you would order if you were the judge

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