CD6: Fair Housing
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The Fair Housing Act
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Examine fair housing law from a historical perspective
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Understand the history of residential segregation
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Identify the exemptions to the federal Fair Housing Act
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Analyze the Fair Housing Act's discriminatory housing practices
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Analyze HUD's interpretations of the Fair Housing Act's discriminatory
housing practices
The
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988
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Analyze the need for the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988
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Examine the changes made in enforcement of the new law
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Understand familial status discrimination
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Learn the exemptions for "housing for older persons"
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Analyze the factors in developing reasonable occupancy standards
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Learn the definition of handicap
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Analyze the HUD regulations concerning handicap
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Examine the design and construction requirements for new housing
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Explain the HUD and NAR positions on AIDS disclosure
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Compare the Americans with Disabilities Act with the Fair Housing Amendments
Act
Fair
Housing Advertising
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Analyze the Fair Housing Act's prohibition of discriminatory advertising
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State the potential defendants in a fair housing advertising complaint
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Analyze judicial interpretations of the Fair Housing Act
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Examine the HUD advertising guidelines
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Create protected class sensitive advertising
Fair
Housing Enforcement
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Describe the enforcement options
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Examine who has standing to sue under the Fair Housing Act
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Describe how testers are utilized in the enforcement process
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Compare disparate treatment and disparate impact discrimination theories
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Analyze the HUD enforcement procedure
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Review the enforcement role of the Justice Department
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Explain the process of filing a civil suit in federal District Court
Fair
Housing Case Law
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Understand how HUD and the courts are continuing to develop and implement
fair housing law
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Recognize discriminatory housing practices through case study analysis
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Examine the nature of damage awards from both HUD and the courts
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Determine what relief you would order if you were the judge
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