Lastly, the notice also provides some recommendations on three criteria it states are particularly likely to pose fair housing concerns due to disparities in their measurement and overboard screenings: credit history, eviction history, and criminal records. To avoid these three measures from causing a discriminatory effect in the screening process, HUD recommends housing providers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Avoid denials based on an applicant\u2019s credit score in circumstances when the applicant\u2019s financial background has especially little relevance;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Admit applicants so long as they do not have a negative credit history;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do not rely on eviction records that are old, incomplete, irrelevant, or where a better measure of an applicant\u2019s behavior is available, and disregard any record if that information is known before a screening;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do not deny housing to applicants based on eviction proceedings where the tenant prevailed, a settlement was reached, or the matter was dropped;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- When formulating screening policies and reviewing applications, account for the fact that overboard criminal records screenings do not differentiate between offenses based on their nature, severity, or how long ago they occurred; those that consider records that did not result in a conviction; and those that do not provide an opportunity for the applicant to provide evidence of rehabilitation or other mitigating factors;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do not take into account criminal activity that was due to an underlying experience of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Make exceptions to admission policies and disregard certain criminal records if an individual\u2019s disability makes it unlikely that they would re-offend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
To read the full notice, please visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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