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24 CFR Part 100—Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines
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24 CFR Part 100—Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines, Preamble
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Office of the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity 24 CFR Part 100 [Docket No. N-91-2011; FR 2665-N-06] Fair...
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24 CFR Part 100—Supplement to Notice of Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines: Questions and Answers about the Guidelines
dwellings designed and constructed for first occupancy after March 13, 1991....
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Supplementary Information:
The Fair Housing Amendments Act also made it unlawful to design and construct certain multifamily dwellings for first occupancy after March 13, 1991, in a manner that makes them inaccessible...
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(1) Site impracticality
The final Guidelines provide that covered multifamily dwellings with elevators shall be designed and constructed to provide at least one accessible entrance on an accessible route regardless...
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(2) An accessible route into and through covered dwelling units
The final Guidelines distinguish between (i) single-story dwelling units, and (ii) multistory dwelling units in elevator buildings, and provide guidance on designing an accessible entrance...
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§100.5(c)
(c) Nothing in this part relieves persons participating in a Federal or Federally-assisted program or activity from other requirements applicable to buildings and dwellings....
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(d) Outside surface at entry door
The final Guidelines also provide that at the primary entry door to a dwelling units with direct exterior access, outside landing surfaces constructed of impervious materials such as concrete...
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II. Statutory and Regulatory Background
As amended, Section 804(f)(3)(C) of the Act provides that unlawful discrimination includes a failure to design and construct covered multifamily dwellings for first occupancy after March...
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Introduction
dwellings and certain types of units within covered multifamily dwellings....
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(1) Accessible entrance and an accessible route
The Option One guidelines for these two requirements remain unchanged in the final Guidelines.
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(2) Accessible and usable public and common use areas
The Option One guidelines for public and common use areas remain unchanged in the final Guidelines.
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Section 2. Adaptable dwelling units
"Adaptable dwelling units", when used with respect to covered multifamily dwellings, means dwelling units that include the features of adaptable design specified in 24 CFR 100.205(c)(2)-...
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(4) Doors to public and common use areas
The final Guidelines continued to provide that on accessible routes in public and common use areas, and for primary entry doors to covered units, doors that comply with ANSI 4.13 meet the...
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VI. Relationship to Other Laws
multifamily dwellings with certain features of accessible design.22 The FHAct design and construction requirements apply to ‘‘covered multifamily dwellings’’ designed and constructed...
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Section 2. Covered multifamily dwellings
"Covered multifamily dwellings" or "covered multifamily dwellings subject to the Fair Housing Amendments" means buildings consisting of four or more dwelling units if such buildings have...
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Section 1: Dwellings Subject to the New Construction Requirements of the Fair Housing Act.
The issues addressed in this section concern the types of multifamily dwellings (or portions of such dwellings) designed and constructed for first occupancy after March 13, 1991 that must...
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Fair Housing Act
It is unlawful to discriminate in any aspect of selling or renting housing or to deny a dwelling to a buyer or renter because of the disability of that individual, an individual associated...
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Section 3. Fair Housing Act Design and Construction Requirements
ETA Editor's Note Section 3 of the original document reprints the text of 24 CFR §100.205, which implements the Fair Housing Act's accessibility requirements. However, the...
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1.1 Q. Are townhouses in non-elevator buildings which have individual exterior entrances required to be accessible?
(See the discussion of townhouses in the preamble to the Guidelines under Section 2--Definitions [Covered Multifamily Dwellings] at 56 FR 9481, March 6, 1991, or 24 CFR Ch. I, Subch....
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1.3 Q. What if the single-story dwelling units are separated by firewalls?
The Guidelines define covered multifamily dwellings to include buildings having four or more units within a single structure separated by firewalls....
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Section 2: Accessibility Guidelines.
The issues addressed in this section concern the technical specifications set forth in the Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines.
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Section 4. Application of the Guidelines
The design specifications (guidelines) presented in Section 5 apply to new construction of "covered multifamily dwellings", as defined in Section 2....
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2.1 Q. If a building includes three residential dwelling units and one or more commercial spaces, is the building a covered multifamily dwelling under the Fair Housing Act?
Covered multifamily dwellings are buildings consisting of four or more dwelling units, if such buildings have one or more elevators; and ground floor dwelling units in other buildings consisting...