This webinar series is designed to educate disability stakeholders and fair housing partners on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) and community engagement throughout the fair housing planning process. These webinars will be sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity (FHEO), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Community Living (ACL). Participants will learn how to best affirmatively further fair housing to support individuals with disabilities and engage them in the fair housing planning process. Register today!

Agenda and Speakers

Part I: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing for Individuals with Disabilities

• History of the Fair Housing Act and context for the requirement to “affirmatively further fair housing”
• Best practices for fair housing planning that considers the needs of individuals with disabilities
• Overview of effective community participation that involves individuals with disabilities and their stakeholders

Demetria McCain

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (HUD, FHEO)

Alison Barkoff

Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging
(HHS, ACL)

Sarale Sewell

Program Analyst, Policy & Legislative Initiatives Division
(HUD, FHEO)

Joshua Gillerman

Disability Law & Fair Housing Attorney, Fair Housing Compliance Division
(HUD, OGC)

Part II: Best Practices for Engaging the Disability Community in Fair Housing Planning

• A brief synopsis of Part I Webinar: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing for Individuals with Disabilities
• Principles of community engagement with the disability community
• Best practices for community engagement throughout the fair housing planning process
• Engaging stakeholders in fair housing planning – Questions and data gathering

Sarale Sewell

Program Analyst, Policy & Legislative Initiatives Division
(HUD, FHEO)

Daniel Davis

Policy Analyst
(HHS, ACL)

Micaela Connery
CEO/Co-Founder
The Kelsey

Leslie Dara Baldwin
Director of National Policy
Center for Disability Rights

Cashauna Hill 
Executive Director
Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center
 

Who Should Attend?

• HUD grantees, including representatives of entitlement communities, participating jurisdictions (PJs), and public housing authorities (PHAs), who are responsible for producing fair housing documents
• Individuals with disabilities, their caregivers, and their stakeholders 

Schedule and Registration

You must have a HUD Exchange account to register. Follow these instructions for registering.

Additional Information and Resources

• ACL page
• FHEO page
• FHEO Disability page
• AFFH page

Disability Access and Reasonable Accommodation Request(s)

Webinars will meet 508 compliance standards. HUD will provide interpretation services for American Sign Language (ASL) and Communication Access Real Time Translation (CART) speech-to-text (also referred to as real-time captioning).

Please contact [email protected] by April 25, 2022, at 11:59 PM EDT for specific reasonable accommodation requests.

Training Point of Contact

For more information, please contact: [email protected]