A federal court has struck down another restrictive pool use rule. On April 22 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the A Country Place Condominiums in New Jersey violated the Fair Housing Act by implementing pool rules for male and female only swim times. By adopting a sex-segregated swim schedule, A Country PlaceRead More…

For several years I’ve been involved in a push to get the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to update the Agency’s condominium rules. This has been a long-term effort fraught with fits and starts, built on a foundation of bureaucratic inertia. This has always been an access to credit issue for me. Unless a condo buildingRead More…

The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that debris removal in several parishes following the Great Flood of 2016 in Louisiana began today. As tens of thousands of homeowners and businesses gut their properties, removing flood debris is a major step in community recovery. An often overlooked obstacle to recovery can be FEMA refusal to reimburseRead More…