Fair Housing

Healthcare providers, therapists, social workers, teachers, and members of a peer support group are examples of those who can verify somebody else's disability as a third party.

Robust fair housing laws are among the various tools available to people with disabilities to ensure their access to independent living in the neighborhoods of their choosing.

The From Click to Visit report used civil rights testing to uncover numerous barriers to housing for people with disabilities. In particular, the report’s findings raise major concerns about [...]

ESAs provide important benefits to people with disabilities, and nontraditional animals can provide the same comforting function to one person as a dog or cat might provide to someone else.

While most people are aware of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a Civil Rights Movement leader, fewer are familiar with the role he played in the fair housing movement.

       EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER SECURES PROTECTIONS FOR TEMPORARY SUBSIDY HOLDERS AS IT RESOLVES SOURCE OF INCOME DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT AGAINST DC HOUSING PROVIDER Washington, D.C.—December 20th, [...]

If your housing complex doesn't have enough accessible parking spaces, you can submit a reasonable accommodation request for an additional space.

Despite source of income protections, voucher holders still face illegal outright denials as well as more covert forms of deterrence from housing.

Domestic Violence is a Fair Housing Issue: How Criminal Records Screening Policies Can Harm Survivors of Domestic Violence By Aastha Uprety, ERC Program Assistant, and Kate Scott, Deputy Director [...]

JUDGE RULES TEMPORARY SUBSIDIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT’S PROHIBITION AGAINST SOURCE OF INCOME DISCRIMINATION “There is no rational distinction for source-of-income purposes between short [...]