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.