Property Management News
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released the highly anticipated findings from his administration’s “Rental Ripoff” hearings on Thursday and laid out a list of ways that the city plans to target landlords it says are operating housing in bad faith. The series of hearings, which were held across the five boroughs between February and April, provided an outlet to tenants accusing their landlords of negligence. In response, property owners expressed outrage, claiming the campaign was essentially a witch hunt. The mayor’s office has refuted those claims, saying the hearings informed proposed reforms that will improve the way upright landlords work with tenants and the city and only target... Read more
Evicting a resident is always a stressful operational hurdle, but when that resident has a disability, the professional stakes go through the roof. Property managers...
Love for pets is at an all-time high and only continues to increase. The American Pet Products Association indicates that 71% of U.S. households own a pet, while...
When property management professionals hear the word “accessibility,” they often think about the physical features of a community. They picture accessible parking...
The gaps in website accessibility for people with disabilities and other underserved groups continues to be exposed. With one in four American adults disabled, digital...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) issued an enforcement memorandum on May 22, 2026, permanently rescinding its 2020 guidance on assistance animals and dramatically narrowing the circumstances under which FHEO will issue a reasonable cause determination in animal-related accommodation complaints. Effective immediately, FHEO will find reasonable cause and pursue prosecution only for cases involving animals individually trained to provide disability-related assistance. According to HUD, this policy change aligns the Fair Housing Act standard for assistance animal accommodations with the service animal... Read more
Evicting a resident is always a stressful operational hurdle, but when that resident has a disability, the professional stakes go through the roof. Property managers...
The moment a property manager issues a denial letter, the professional relationship enters a high-stakes phase. While automated screening tools provide a necessary first...
Many managers assume that as long as they apply the same strict rules to everyone – the consistency trap- they’re protected from fair housing trouble but the legal...
Most multifamily owners and managers are aware that discrimination against disabled tenants can result in litigation and increase a project’s operating expenses, which...
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