Current Trends and New Developments in Fair Housing Testing, HUD Policies, and Compliance
Channel: North Penn Legal Services
Date: 2021-05-20

Rachel Wentworth, Executive Director of the Housing Equality Center of Pennsylvania, will review common fair housing violations based on race, national origin, and familial status. She will discuss how testing is used to investigate claims of discrimination, primarily in these protected classes. This session will also focus on current HUD guidance and enforcement, including updates on how the disparate impact standards and the federal mandate to affirmatively further fair housing will be implemented moving forward.

Presenter:

Rachel Wentworth is the Executive Director of the Housing Equality Center of Pennsylvania. The mission of the Housing Equality Center of Pennsylvania is to advance fair and equal access to housing opportunities for all Pennsylvanians. Before becoming the Executive Director, Rachel served as both the Assistant Director and as the Test Coordinator. Rachel has 20 years of experience fair housing including test coordination in the areas of rentals, sales, insurance, lending and accessibility, complaint resolution, fair housing education and technical assistance to local governments and housing providers, capacity building for other agencies, data analysis, and GIS mapping. Prior to joining Housing Equality Center, Rachel was a test coordinator at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. She holds a Master of Community and Regional Planning from Temple University.