Get Help:
Design and Construction Resource Center
Call Toll-Free: (888) 341-7781 (V/TTY)
Email: FairHousingFirst@hud.gov
Contact your Regional FHEO Office
Contact your Local HUD Office
Contact HUD FHEO Headquarters
Stay Connected:
Listed under the following designations:
Design
- Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines
- Supplement to Notice of Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines
- Fair Housing Act Design Manual (to purchase or download)
- HUD-DOJ joint statement on the accessibility requirements of the Fair Housing Act
- ANSI A117.1 2003
- ANSI A117.1 2009
- UFAS
- HUD's 504 regulations Subpart C
- HUD's regulations allowing UFAS or ADA Standards for 504
- 2010 ADA Standards
Technical Assistance
- International Code Council
- HUD Field Offices
- ADA Centers 800-949-4232
Enforcement/FH Complaints
- not federally funded: FHAP
- HUD funded or no state FHAP: HUD Regional
- USDA funded: USDA Office of Civil Rights 800-787-8821
Accommodations/Modifications
- HUD-DOJ Reasonable Accommodation joint statement
- HUD-DOJ Reasonable Modification joint statement
- HUD Notice on Assistance Animals in Housing
- National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification directory
Disability Advocacy
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today
- American Seniors Housing Association
- Concrete Change
- Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
- National Fair Housing Alliance
- National Housing Law Project
Government
- Access Board
- Department of Justice
- National Council on Disability
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Other Help
- State Legal Aid list
- Permanent Elevator Shut Down Guidance
- National Center on Accessibility
- Section 8 application through local Housing Authority
- HUD-subsidized apartment search — can search for accessible units
- tenant rights — if not disability related; click on state and refer to enforcing agency (e.g. Attorney General or Consumer Protection)
- HUD approved Housing Counseling Agencies mortgage assistance/home purchase/foreclosure/etc.
- HUD Homelessness Assistance
Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST has been contracted by HUD to provide information, materials, and technical assistance to all relevant stakeholders about the accessibility design and construction requirements of the Fair Housing Act as amended in 1988. However, Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST is not responsible for enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. The information, materials, and technical assistance are intended solely as informal guidance and are neither a determination of legal responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act nor binding on any agency with enforcement responsibility under the Fair Housing Act.