Join industry expert Doug Chasick for a powerful and practical exploration of current fair housing laws and the pressing issues shaping compliance in 2025. This fast-paced webinar dissects emerging challenges such as disparate impact, source of income protections, criminal background screenings, disability accommodations, and digital accessibility — all while equipping housing professionals with tools to remain legally compliant and operationally sound.
Whether you're new to fair housing or a seasoned pro, this session offers fresh insights, real-world examples, and best practices you can implement immediately.
Webinar Objectives
By attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand recent legal changes and trends affecting fair housing compliance in 2025.
- Interpret the HUD Discriminatory Effects Rule and its three-step burden-shifting test.
- Identify best practices for dealing with source of income protections and occupancy standards.
- Address fair chance housing laws and individualized assessments for criminal history.
- Manage disability accommodation requests, including service and assistance animals.
- Recognize and prevent harassment, including sexual and hostile environment harassment.
- Navigate compliance challenges related to AI, algorithms, and digital accessibility tools.
- Improve communication with residents with Limited English Proficiency (LEP).
Webinar Agenda
- Decoding Disparate Impact
- HUD’s three-step burden shifting process
- Real-world examples and enforcement trends
- Source of Income Protections
- Income calculation scenarios
- State and local legislative shifts
- Criminal Background Screening & Fair Chance Housing
- Individualized assessments
- Business necessity vs. consistency
- Handling Requests for Reasonable Accommodation
- Service vs. assistance animals
- Documentation, nexus, and interactive process
- Sexual & Other Forms of Harassment
- Quid pro quo vs. hostile environment
- Best practices for staff and vendor training
- Digital Accessibility & Use of AI in Screening
- Legal responsibilities and best practices
- Retaining control of algorithms
- Bonus Topics
- Non-renewals vs. evictions
- Language access and LEP compliance
- Preparing for housing testers
Webinar Highlights
- Policy not politics
- Real changes and forecast changes to compliance requirements
- Decoding Disparate Impact (again!)
- Source of Income as an ever-increasing protected category
- Are Fair Chance Housing laws really fair?
- Preparing for the tsunami of fair housing testers
- Handling Harassment
- AI, algorithms and digital accessibility
- Do non-renewals equal evictions?
- How to effectively work with non-English speaking customers
Who Should Attend
Regional/Area Managers, Community Managers and Assistant Managers, Leasing Managers, Service Managers, Training, Compliance and HR Professionals.
