The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued a memorandum repealing a 2013 guidance in order to make housing more affordable to Americans.
The “burdensome” guidance raised the costs of constructing, purchasing, and renting multifamily dwellings, HUD said in a Sept. 1 statement. The 2013 guidance relates to the Fair Housing Act (FHA), which bans discrimination on the basis of disability, race, sex, and other factors by housing providers, including landlords.
The guidance interpreted the FHA to allow certain people living in multifamily properties to file administrative complaints over design or construction violations at any time until the violations are corrected. The latest memorandum limits such complaints to within one year of the property receiving a certificate of occupancy….