The Fair Housing Act and the Accessibility Guidelines


Tuesday, August 22, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Eastern Time Zone

Description

This session will explain the historical context, evolution, and scope of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) as well as identify the accessible design characteristics covered by the FHA. Attendees will learn about reasonable housing accommodation and modification protections for individuals with disabilities. This session will also take a look at the development framework and content for the Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines as well as identify FHA resources and training opportunities.

To ensure your question is answered during the session, individuals are highly encouraged to submit their questions ahead of time via the registration website (the option to submit questions is available once you have registered for the session).

Human Generated Real-Time Captioning will be provided for this session.

Learning Objectives:
  1. Understand the historical context, evolution, and scope of the Fair Housing Act.
  2. Identify the accessible design characteristics covered by the Fair Housing Act.
  3. Understand reasonable accommodation and modification protections for individuals with disabilities
  4. Recognize the development framework and content of the Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines.
  5. Identify FHA resources and training.

Continuing Education Recognition Available

Certificate Credit hours
ACTCP 1.5
AIA HSW CES 1.5
California Architects Board 1.5
Certificate of Attendance 1.5
ICC 1.5

Speakers:

John Biemiller, Digital Artist,

Eric Contreras, Architect, Accessibility Consulting, LLC

Kelly Jewell-Glasscock, PhD, Instructional Designer and Adjunct Faculty ,

Questions for presenters:

1 Elevators- Can a building that has multiple elevators decommission some or all of the elevators? When an elevator is out of service and awaiting repair, what are the obligations of the property owner? What role does the state department of Commerce play in regard to elevators? I live in a city where the buildings are of an age where the elevators in several buildings may be reaching the end of their usable life, more frequent breakdowns, and some people have said they think it's okay if a building decommissions some or all of their elevators instead of repairing/replacing. Thanks- that was really a bunch of questions instead of one!
9 When an elevator is out or going through repairs what is Coop by law obligated to do for their shareholders?

Session Questions

This session is accepting questions from registered users. After you have registered to participate in this session you can submit your questions on your Account Manager page. Please note: the number of questions will be limited and submissions will be closed well before the session starts to provide time to prepare answers.