May 24, 2018 Grace Hill Training Tip of the Week Review Your Screening Policies Regularly The National Fair Housing Alliance’s recent publication, Making Every Neighborhood a Place of Opportunity: 2018 Fair Housing Trends Reportis full of useful information about the state of fair housing in our nation, 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act. […]
Category: Tenant Screening
Assistance Animals Are Not Pets–Repeat–Assistance Animals Are Not Pets
http://rentalhousingjournal.com/articles/2018/07/06/assistance-animals-are-not-pets%E2%80%93repeat%E2%80%93assistance-animals-are-not-pets “I didn’t know” is not an acceptable defense if you face a discrimination charge, so the Grace Hill training tip of the week focuses on repeating advice that assistance animals are not pets when it comes to leasing your rentals. By Ellen Clark The typical story goes like this, where a prospective renter provides documentation from […]
Evictions: They Are Not The Terrible Landlord’s Fault
July 10, 2018 Evictions are an awful side of the rental housing business that causes pain for both tenants who need a place to live and landlords who have to run a business. A book that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond, looks at how mass evictions […]
New law targets discrimination against low-income renters
OLYMPIA – Washington landlords can’t turn down prospective tenants or evict current ones for paying some of their rent with vouchers or other government aid, a new law says. A change to the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, signed Thursday by Gov. Jay Inslee, prohibits discrimination against tenants based on their source of income, and allows for […]
State Legislature Passes E3SHB 2578 regarding Source of Income
MARCH 15, 2018 Posted By: Brett WallerAdvocacy News Washington Multi-Family Housing Association (WMFHA) welcomes the passage of Engrossed Third Substitute House Bill 2578 establishing statewide source of income protections, and creating the Landlord Mitigation Fund in statute. The new law, which will take effect September 30, decreases the burdens on rental housing providers associated with participation […]
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND SCREENING CONSUMER BENEFITS
Roles and Responsibilities Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act Benefits of Using a Professional Background Screening Firm Credit: Above information is taken from https://pubs.thepbsa.org/pub.cfm?id=E5F1E454-EDF1-A76F-BDF8-32606D54DCAA TENANT AND EMPLOYMENT SCREENING www.orcainformation.com Tenant Investigations Pre-Employment Background Check Consumer Credit Report
THE FACTS ABOUT BACKGROUND SCREENING
Original posts from : https://pubs.napbs.com As employers, landlords and volunteer groups seek to make informed decisions related to hiring and ensuring safety in our workplaces and communities there continues to be a focus on background screening. Workplace violence, fraud, embezzlement, and theft are a multi-billion dollar drain on our economy— a cost that can easily be mitigated. Background screening […]
Fair Chance Housing
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: ‘FAIR CHANCE HOUSING’ Q13 FOX Bridging the Divide is a weekly series that brings opposing sides of a controversial topic together, face-to-face. Each week, Brandi Kruse hosts the two sides for a positive dialogue on issues ranging from gun control, to policing, to politics. This week: “Fair Chance Housing” Does a landlord have […]
RESOURCES: Affordable housing in Washington State
NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS – WASHINGTON STATE Resources for homeless, foster, runaway, emotional or mental crisis, veterans, domestic or sexual violence victims WASHINGTON INFORMATION NETWORK 2-1-1 Easy-to-remember phone number for people to call for health and human service information, referrals and other assistance KING COUNTY CRISIS CLINIC 2-1-1 Information and Referral Specialists are experts […]
Looking For Affordable Housing In Washington State?
aptfinder.org is a non-profit website formed to connect low income households with affordable apartment communities throughout Washington State. Listings are voluntarily advertised on our site by owners and managers of rental apartments for low-income households whose annual income is below 80% of area median income. The properties listed on aptfinder.org include both subsidized and non-subsidized apartment rentals offering […]