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Administrative Form for Filing a Housing Complaint
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Self Advocacy Tools
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Boiler plate letter requesting reasonable accommodation
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Self Advocacy Tools
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Disability Rights in Housing
- Regardless of whether you live in private or public housing, Federal laws provide the rights to persons with disabilities. This document discusses those rights.
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Community Services
Self Advocacy Tools
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Fair Housing Information Sheets
- The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has put together a series of "Information Sheets." They are intended to help tenants, advocates and landlords to fight and prevent housing discimination against people with disabilities. Click here to link to the Information Sheets on the Bazelon web site.
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Community Services
Federal Fair Housing Act
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Fair housing and reasonable accommodations in terms of “no pets” policies
- Under the 1988 amendments to the Fair Housing Act, landlords, condominium associations, and other housing providers are prohibited “from
discriminating against applicants or residents because of their disability or the disability of anyone associated with them and from treating persons with disabilities less favorably than others because of their disability.” The Act
prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities by preventing housing providers from refusing “to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be necessary to afford a person with a disability the equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.” Significantly, housing providers must make reasonable accommodations in terms of “no pets” policies to let disabled individuals have service animals.
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Community Services
Rehab Act
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HUD - what is a complaint
- A complaint is a communication alleging discrimination on the basis of disability and in some way asking for HUD's assistance in resolving the problem. It may range from a verbal communication (which is later put in writing) to a complaint submitted on either the old HUD-903 Complaint Form, or on the new HUD Housing Discrimination Information Form.
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HUD Complaint process
- Complaints filed with HUD are investigated by the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO). If the complaint is not successfully conciliated, FHEO determines whether reasonable cause exists to believe that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred. Where reasonable cause is found , the parties to the complaint are notified by HUD's issuance of a Determination, as well as a Charge of Discrimination, and a hearing is scheduled before a HUD administrative law judge. Either party - complainant or respondent - may cause the HUD-scheduled administrative proceeding to be terminated by electing instead to have the matter litigated in Federal court. Whenever a party has so elected, the Department of Justice takes over HUD's role as counsel seeking resolution of the charge on behalf of aggrieved persons, and the matter proceeds as a civil action. Either form of action - the ALJ proceeding or the civil action in Federal court - is subject to review in the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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Housing
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How to Write a Disability Verification letter
- Tips for Professionals on How to Write a Disability Verification Letter to Support an Individual's Request for Reasonable Accommodation or Reasonable Modification in Housing
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Self Advocacy Tools
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How to file a housing complaint
- Information about how file a housing complaint. Also includes addresses.
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Self Advocacy Tools
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Instructions for filing a Housing complaint with WVHRC
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Manual - Fair Housing Laws for People With Disabilities
- Comprehensive 58 page manual to explain how Fair Housing laws protect people with disabilities, when dealing with emergency shelter programs and with transitional housing programs. Written in California, it covers both federal law (which will apply in WV) and California law (which will not apply in WV).
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Americans with Disabilities Act
Federal Fair Housing Act
Homelessness
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Section 504 and Housing
- a HUD funded public housing authority, or a HUD funded non-profit developer of low income housing is a recipient of federal financial assistance and is subject to Section 504's requirements. However, a private landlord who accepts Section 8 tenant-based vouchers in payment for rent from a low income individual is not a recipient of federal financial assistance. Similarly, a family that receives Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) or HOME funds for the rehabilitation of an owner-occupied unit is also not a recipient because it is the ultimate beneficiary of the funds.
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Rehab Act
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| Forms |
HOUSING COMPLAINT INFORMATION BACKGROUND FORM
- WV Human Rights Commissions complaint form
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