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Showing posts with label Fair Housing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fair Housing. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2025

New York Expands Human Rights Law to Ban Discrimination in Real Estate Appraisals

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On October 16, 2025, A6689  was signed into law and now New Yorkers are protected from discrimination in real estate appraisal services by t...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

NYC Provides Protections for Individuals with Criminal Histories from Discrimination

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NYC has clarified that it is illegal to discriminate in housing against applicants / occupants with criminal histories by way of  Local Law ...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Discriminatory Tenant-Screening Tool Results in $2.275MM Payment

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On November 20, 2024, the Honorable Angel Kelley of the United States District Court of Massachusetts issued a Final Approval Order for a $...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing - New HUD Rule

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HUD announced new proposed fair housing rules on February 9, 2023 in the federal register .  To remind you, fair housing rules are anti-disc...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

New York Law Journal: Discrimination Boutique Takes on ADA Class Action on Behalf of Deaf Apartment Dwellers

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Residents tried going to management directly, called on their elected leaders and on community organizers and even staged a demonstration ou...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Major New RE Landlord / Tenant & Brokerage Regulatory Law in NYS - BOOM

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New York tenants will be receiving new notices about their rights to reasonable modifications and accommodations for persons with disabiliti...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Housing Discrimination & Your Rights - What Victims Should Know

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Discrimination in real estate is illegal throughout the United States and in certain states, like New York, there are even greater protectio...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Notice of Tenants' Rights to Reasonable Modifications and Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities

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On March 16, 2022, the NYS Division of Human Rights published Revised Rule Making, HRT-15-21-00005-RP  (proposed 19 NYCRR 466.15), with resp...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

New Law: Real Estate Brokerage in NYS is Changed for Good - Standardized Qualifying of Homebuyers Required

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Write down December 21, 2021 as the date that real estate brokerage was changed forever in NYS. That is when S2131A was signed into law and...

New Law: Real Estate License Law Violation Fine Doubled to Fund Fair Housing Enforcement

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Starting on February 19, 2022, the maximum fine for real estate license law violations has been doubled from $1,000 to $2,000 by S945B . Bro...

New RE Brokerage CE Requirement - Implicit Bias Training - Lieb School is Ready

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Starting on June 19, 2022, real estate licensees in NYS will be required to complete "at least two hours of instruction pertaining to i...

New RE Brokerage CE Requirement - Cultural Competency Training - Lieb School is Ready

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Starting on April 20, 2022, real estate licensees in NYS will be required to complete "at least two hours of cultural competency traini...

New NYS / Local Government Fair Housing Enforcement Obligations

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As of 12/21/2021, all state agencies administering housing programs or enforcing housing laws and all localities administering housing progr...
Friday, December 10, 2021

New RE Brokerage Law: NYS Funding For Fair Housing Testing Efforts

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Now there is another initiative by New York State to combat discrimination in real estate. Effective as of December 21, 2021 a $30 fee has b...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Housing Discrimination - Updated Protected Classes List - As Applicable to Downstate New York

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We are always updating our CE courses at Lieb School because the law is constantly changing.  While the law changes on every topic, there i...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

NYS Proposes Regulations that Require Appraisers to Learn Fair Housing / Anti-Discrimination

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On 12/23/2020, the NYS Department of State proposed mandating fair housing education as a condition of license renewal for appraisers and a...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Fair Housing Guidance Procedure Unveiled in New Interim Final Rule

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Get your anti-discrimination guidance starting on December 10, 2020 on HUD's new searchable website, which will also give guidance on le...
Friday, September 25, 2020

NYS Senate Committee - Housing Discrimination Hearing

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 Watch the hearing live now  here   What do you think?  The key question was whether there should be legislation to cap the number of salesp...
Monday, August 03, 2020

New Housing Discrimination Law – RE Brokers Exposed to Fines & Revoked / Suspended Licenses

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Effective August 3, 2020, the Department of State is given the discretion to fine, suspend, or revoke a real estate broker or salesperson...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Suffolk County Fair Housing Task Force Expected to Begin Efforts to Combat Discrimination

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On July 14, 2020, the Suffolk County Fair Housing Task Force convened for the first time after its creation and after delays due to the coro...