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The DRC provides information, advice, and legal representation to individuals who have problems with housing who have been discriminated against due to their disability. Other housing law problems are referred to New Hampshire Legal Assistance or the Legal Advice and Referral Center for income-eligible individuals.
Housing information from the DRC:
- The Rap Sheet: Home Sweet Home, Spring 2007 PDF Version Text Version
- Problems with Housing? Where to Turn for Help PDF version Text Version En Español
- Fair Housing Rights of People with Disabilities PDF Version Text Version En Español
- Emotional Support Animals in "No Pet" Housing PDF Version Text version
- Housing Discrimination: Your Right to Fair Housing in New Hampshire, by Kimberly Hallquist, Esq.
The Law: Statutes, Regulations:
- NH RSA 354-A: State Commission for Human Rights contains the NH Fair Housing provisions
- The Fair Housing Act and other federal housing legislation, from the HUD website
DRC Cases:
Other Places to Go For Legal Assistance:
- Legal Advice and Referral Center.
- New Hampshire Legal Services Community Website. See Housing Section
- New Hampshire Legal Assistance. NHLA has a section on Fair Housing Law.
- You can file a complaint with the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights
- You can file a complaint with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Legal Services Programs in NH
Other Resources:
- Priced out in 2006: a report from the Technical Assistance CollaborativeJuly 2005:
- HUD Groundbreaking Study: Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities: Barriers at Every Step. This Chicago-based study shows frequent discrimination against people with disabilities who try to rent apartments.
- February 2005: HUD issues new guidelines to Public Housing Authorities to identify and clarify ways in which PHAs can assist people with disabilities to find safe, decent and affordable housing under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program.
- The Bazelon Center has many Fair Housing Information Sheets, including
- CATCH Neighborhood Housing (Merrimack County)
- Granite State Independent Living has resources on housing
- National Disability Rights Network Housing Issues
- New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
- Home of Your Own Program helps individuals with developmental disabilities, families with a child with developmental disabilities and people with special challenges buy homes.
- New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
- Housing Discrimination: Your Right to Fair Housing in New Hampshire, by Kimberly Hallquist, Esq.
- Locate HUD multifamily housing units in New Hampshire and other states, on the HUD website
- National Fair Housing Advocate Online
- National Housing Law Project
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
- Problems with Housing? Where to Turn for Help PDF version Text Version
- US
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- "HUD in New Hampshire" information about HUD programs, contacts, grants, and more
- Information for people with disabilities
