Human Rights and Fair Housing Commission — Naperville, IL
Date: 2018-01-23

400 S. Eagle Street
 City of Naperville Naperville, IL 60540



 Meeting Agenda

 Housing Advisory Commission

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:00 AM NEU - Naperville Employee University


 Meeting of the Fair Housing Complaint Review Panel



The Fair Housing Complaint Review Panel is comprised of 3 Housing Advisory Commissioners
with the purpose of reviewing fair housing complaints and reporting the panel's proceedings to
the Housing Advisory Commission.

A. CALL TO ORDER:

B. ROLL CALL:

C. PUBLIC FORUM:

D. OLD BUSINESS:

E. NEW BUSINESS:
1. 18-052 Review Fair Housing Complaint FH1702 (Taylor v. CHAD).


F. REPORTS:

G. ADJOURNMENT:
 Any individual with a disability requesting a reasonable accommodation in order to
 participate in a public meeting should contact the Communications Department at least
 48 hours in advance of the scheduled meeting. The Communications Department can
 be reached in person at 400 S. Eagle Street, Naperville, IL., via telephone at
 630-420-6707 or 630-305-5205 (TDD) or via e-mail at info@naperville.il.us. Every effort
 will be made to allow for meeting participation.




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400 S. Eagle Street
 City of Naperville Naperville, IL 60540



 Meeting Minutes

 Housing Advisory Commission


Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:00 AM NEU - Naperville Employee University

 Meeting of the Fair Housing Complaint Review Panel

The Fair Housing Complaint Review Panel is comprised of 3 Housing Advisory Commissioners
with the purpose of reviewing fair housing complaints and reporting the panel's proceedings to
the Housing Advisory Commission.

A. CALL TO ORDER:
 The meeting was called to order at 9:00am.

B. ROLL CALL:

 Present: James Bernicky, Mercedes Haber-Kovach, Linda Kuhn

 Absent: None

 Others Present: Kasey Evans, Kristen Foley

C. PUBLIC FORUM:

D. OLD BUSINESS:

E. NEW BUSINESS:

1. Review Fair Housing Complaint FH1702 (Taylor v. CHAD).

 The review panel reviewed more than 300 pages of documentation submitted
 by both the Complainant (Ms. Taylor) and Respondent (CHAD) landlord, and
 discussed the Complaint. All review panel members participated in the
 discussion and came to a consensus on the following issues:

 § No additional information was needed due to the amount of documents the
 were provided by both parties.
 § There was no evidence to support Complainant’s allegation that repairs
 requested but not completed by Respondent were related to Complainant’s
 alleged disability and no evidence the repairs requested were needed to
 accommodate any alleged disability.
 § DuPage Housing Authority inspects all rental units using housing vouchers
 yearly to make sure they meet minimum standards. If the unit does not
 meet DuPage Housing Authority’s minimum Housing Quality Standards
 during the initial or annual inspection, the landlord is required to make any

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 repairs to the unit necessary to bring it into compliance, or the landlord may
 not be allowed to rent the unit to a Housing Choice Voucher tenant. The
 Respondent provided evidence that it was responsive to the Complainant’s
 requests for repair and maintenance.
 § There were non-discriminatory reasons for the rent increase, including
 location and size of unit, comparable units, market rate, and approval of rate
 by DuPage Housing Authority.
 § Communication between both the Respondent and Complainant could have
 been better.
 § Complainant has a pending complaint with the Illinois Department of Human
 Rights against CHAD, Complainant sought and received legal
 representation through Prairie State Legal Services regarding her lease with
 CHAD, and CHAD has a pending forcible detainer action against
 Complainant.

 Based upon these findings, the committee determined the Complaint was
 without merit and will recommend dismissal of the Complaint to the entire
 Housing Advisory Commission at the next HAC meeting.

F. REPORTS:

G. ADJOURNMENT:

 The meeting adjourned at 9:21am.




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