The Fair Housing Act and the Accessibility Guidelines

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.