Our clients seek to build and sustain just and equitable housing solutions for a diverse range of constituencies and communities. We have significant experience in regulatory compliance criteria for affordable housing and community development projects. Klein Hornig helps clients meet and exceed federal, state, and local legal and regulatory requirements related to fair housing and civil rights, relocation and property acquisition, environmental review, prevailing wage, and similar compliance criteria.
Klein Hornig’s fair housing and civil rights practice is part of an extensive regulatory practice that also covers matters such as compliance with the Uniform Relocation Act, HUD environmental requirements, lead hazard requirements, and Davis-Bacon Related Acts. We provide advice, counsel, representation, training, and technical assistance in all aspects of fair housing, civil rights, and civil rights-related program requirements associated with the development and operation of assisted and affordable housing. Our areas of expertise include compliance with the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the federal Age Discrimination Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and the duty to affirmatively further fair housing. We help our clients assess regulatory compliance in their properties, their portfolios, and their policies.
We assist public housing authorities and other owners and management companies of affordable and subsidized housing in diverse regulatory matters, such as occupancy planning and tenant selection preferences, including selection preferences for seniors and the elderly, people with disabilities, families who qualify for voluntary services, veterans, victims of domestic violence, and others; the development of relocation plans and notices; the preparation of language assistance plans under Title VI; compliance with the architectural access, effective communications, and reasonable accommodation requirements of Section 504 and the ADA; application of site and neighborhood standards in the development of housing assisted with public housing, Project-Based Vouchers, the HOME program, and other HUD funds; and compliance with VAWA notice and leasing criteria.
