Updated ruling on Assistance and Service Animals

Date: November 18, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 Minutes
Speaker: Paul Flogstad

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Description

We will discuss best practices as far as what property owners and managers should do to help prevent noncompliance in the area of service and assistance animals.

As of the date of the issuance of this guidance, FHA complaints concerning denial of reasonable accommodations and disability access comprise almost 60% of all FHA complaints and those involving requests for reasonable accommodations for assistance animals are significantly increasing

This guidance is provided as a tool for housing providers and persons with a disability to use at their discretion and provides a set of best practices for addressing requests for reasonable accommodations to keep animals in housing where individuals with disabilities reside or seek to reside. We will discuss HUD’s new ruling on verification of service or assistance animals.

 

Session Highlights:

It covers the questions to ask in determining if the animal is a service animal or an assistive animal. The seminar covers the new time frame for answering requests for a reasonable accommodation for and animal. Also covered are the various questions concerning breed, weight, type and size of the animal. The other important topic is verifications of the need for the service or assistance an animal to prove a nexus between the disability and the need for an animal of some type. Also covered will be the methods used to verify need.

  • Discussed will be a review of the protected classes.
  • Time frames for decision on reasonable accommodation requests
  • Difference between service and assistance animals
  • What questions may be asked about disability
  • Definition of disability when concerning accommodation
  • Online animal verifications

 

Who Should Attend?

  • Property Managers
  • Property owners
  • Leasing agents
  • Builders
  • Developers
  • Realtors
  • Housing Authorities

Speaker

Paul Flogstad

Paul has been involved in the real estate industry for the past 38 years. He has been involved in sales, construction, project management, appraisal, mortgage consulting and brokerage, property management and property management consulting/training.

Through his consulting company, Property Management Solutions, he provides training and consulting services nationwide to owners, management companies, multi-housing associations, as well as state and federal agencies.
He specializes in fair housing issues and has developed fair housing and outreach programs for governmental agencies as well as conducting seminars which are presented to property management companies, apartment associations and the general public. He also conducts research analysis for impediments to fair housing for grantees of federal CDBG funds.

Most recently, he has been a consultant to the City of Sioux Falls and the State of South Dakota. In this assignment he has developed a fair housing awareness program that is one of the first of its kind in the nation. It involves a three pronged approach to fair housing awareness. This approach makes use of an ombudsman concept and has proven to be very effective in dealing with discrimination and landlord/tenant issues.

For over twenty years was involved in appraisal of residential, multi-family, farm and commercial properties throughout the Midwest. Most recently, he was a consultant for affordable, multi-housing properties in 22 different states. This involved properties in HUD, Rural Development, HOME and Tax Credit programs.

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