Courses

Domestic violence is a serious issue that affects housing providers and residents all over the country every year. While housing providers may want to do their best to help, they may not know what policies to adopt and practices to follow when dealing with a victim of domestic violence in their community.  What rights do the laws provide victims of domestic violences? Should the police get involved? Don’t guess your way through this complex topic, or wait until one of these situations arises.

Languages – English

Training Time: 15 minutes – 10 Question Exam and Certificate of Completion

• Local laws
• Crime free ordinances
• Properties VAWA rights
• Landlord-tenant laws

From big cities to small college towns, student living is a rapidly growing industry throughout the country.  Just like all other housing, employees need to know what to watch out for or risk a fair housing violation. In this supplemental training course, we cover the unique fair housing challenges faced in the student housing industry such as service animals, marijuana usage, harassment, roommate matching, allergy accommodations, and much more.

Languages – English

Training Time: 40 minutes – 10 Question Exam and Certificate of Completion

• Student housing definition and federal laws
• Sexual orientation and gender identity
• Marijuana usage
• Emotional support and service animals
• Illegal harassment
• Roommate matching
• Allergies and chemical sensitivities
• Challenging behaviors

Senior housing presents unique challenges to the fair housing community. We want our senior residents to be treated fairly and cared for properly. To do this requires the right training to learn how fair housing laws affect your policies and procedures. The Fair Housing Institute has carefully created the right training that has a proven track record of helping you and your staff ensure you follow the best practices and avoid costly and time-consuming fair housing complaints.

Languages – English

Training Time: 30 minutes – 10 Question Exam and Certificate of Completion 

• Introduction
• Housing discrimination
• Applicant screening/admissions
• Reasonable accommodations/modifications
• Transfer policies
• Scooter policies
• Failing health
• Death of a tenant

You’ve trained with the Basics, and now it is time to go beyond the Basics!  Our Advanced Fair Housing Course does a deep dive into topics that often cause housing providers confusion because they are so complicated. Fair Housing training cannot be a mere “check the box” activity to be successful. Instead, it needs to be an ongoing education process to keep up with ever-changing topics. Make sure that you and your staff get ahead of the latest fair housing challenges with this advanced training, the perfect follow-up course for anyone who took the Basics of Fair Housing course last year.

Languages – English

Training Time: 2 hours – 50 Question Exam and Certificate of Completion

• Assistance animals
• Criminal history screening
• VAWA and domestic violence
• Sexual harassment
• Expansion of the definition of sex
• Marketing and advertising

This course refers to HUD notice FHEO-2013-01 regarding assistance animals. Please note that the most updated guidance on assistance animals was issued on January 28, 2020 (FHEO-2020-01). Although the information presented in this course is still accurate, we welcome anyone to review the updated guidelines. This information will be revised in the upcoming course update.

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