Discrimination Complaints in Your Neighborhood
In 2016, HUD adopted new guidelines acknowledging the obligation of housing providers, such as community associations, to prevent severe or pervasive offensive remarks or hostile behavior based on a person’s race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. See 81 FR 63054 (2016). Under the new guidelines, community association boards must exercise proper care when they receive complaints that residents are being discriminatorily harassed in the community.