This section is provided as a courtesy to those seeking information on past cases filed and/or settled in Idaho. The list will be updated as cases are provided; the information below was provided by the Intermountain Fair Housing Council as context for the 2016 Assessment of Fair Housing. Cases are organized by the protected class issues at the heart of the complaint.
Category Archives: Info for Housing Consumers
2016 Fair Housing Month Calendar
Idaho Fair Housing Month Training Opportunities
Boise, ID April 5th and 6th (see below for additional dates and locations)
The Idaho Fair Housing Forum, U.S. Attorney’s Office, HUD and Intermountain Fair Housing Council are hosting a Fair Housing Celebration and Workshop focused on Basic Fair Housing topics on April 5, 2016, and April 6, 2016.
Featuring Idaho’s U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson and HUD’s Kristina Miller among others, the workshop will focus on the Fair Housing Act, Support Animals and Reasonable Accommodations, Addressing Hate Acts Under Federal Law and Fair Housing Compliance from a Housing Provider Attorney Perspective. The event is offered as either an on-site training at Boise City Hall or via webcast at the same time, registration links for both options are below. It will run from 8:00 AM to 4:15 PM Mountain.
Boise, April 5, 2016: Webcast
Boise, April 6, 2016: Webcast
For more information contact Brian Dale at HUD’s Idaho Field Office 208-334-1088 ext. 3005; or Zoe Ann Olson of the Intermountain Fair Housing Council at 208-383-0695 or .
Please contact us for any reasonable accommodation needed for the event.
Boise Training materials/presentations
- April 2015 RAR SA April FH Presentation
- Boise Fair Housing Conference Agenda April 5 and 6 2016 Final 4-4-16
- FH Basics 4-5-16
- David Penny Best Practices Presentation
- US Att Idaho Fair Housing PPT 2016
- LEP_Boise FH Conf_Apr 2016_v3
- Disparate Impact
- Fair Housing Hot Topics Federal Cases
Additional locations and training opportunities
The Idaho Fair Housing Forum and Intermountain Fair Housing Council are hosting additional events focused on Basic Fair Housing topics in the following locations in mid to late April:
April 18, 2016
Lewiston Presentation Materials
- April 2015 RAR SA April FH Presentation
- FAIR HOUSING OUTLINE
- LEP_Boise FH Conf_Apr 2016_v3
- Lewiston Fair Housing Training Agenda
April 18, 2016
Moscow Presentation Materials
- April 2015 RAR SA April FH Presentation
- FAIR HOUSING OUTLINE
- LEP_Boise FH Conf_Apr 2016_v3
- Moscow Fair Housing Training Agenda
April 21, 2016: Coeur d’ Alene Workshop
- Fair Housing Training Agenda for April 2016 – CdA Revised, 4-18-16
- April 2015 RAR SA April FH Presentation
- Fair Housing Hot Topics Federal Cases
- FAIR HOUSING OUTLINE
- LEP_Boise FH Conf_Apr 2016_v3
April 26, 2016: Pocatello Workshop
- Fair Housing Training Agenda-Pocatello
- April 2015 RAR SA April FH Presentation
- Fair Housing Hot Topics Federal Cases
- LEP_Boise FH Conf_Apr 2016_v3
- Penny Best Practices Presentation
For more information contact Brian Dale at HUD’s Idaho Field Office (208-334-1088 ext. 3005); or Zoe Ann Olson of the Intermountain Fair Housing Council at 208-383-0695 or .
Please contact us for any reasonable accommodation needed for the event.
Bedbug posters available in eight languages
From the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, important information to share with tenants about bedbug management to help protect tenant health and reduce liability:
“Property Managers can encourage renters to report bed bugs immediately and avoid using total release foggers (or “bug bombs”) with this poster.
Download the 11 x 17 poster (English), print it, and write in your phone number.
Get the poster as a PDF in:
Amharic, Burmese, Chinese, Nepali, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
We also have a short video on bed bugs discussing non-pesticidal strategies for preventing and managing bed bugs in apartment housing. It includes information about potential health risks of foggers, bug bombs, and other chemicals commonly used for bed bug treatment.”
Housing Toolbox for Western Policymakers (Mostly Idaho)
(Created for housing and community stakeholders by IHFA’s Housing Information Referral Center)
Expanding housing choices has benefits far beyond fair housing compliance; housing diversity is equally important for community and economic development strategies. Housing types and price points that reflect the needs and means of community residents support a more stable labor force and educational system, reduce social costs of poverty, and lead to economic prosperity.
Housing that is affordable to a range of incomes serves as a perpetual wage subsidy to local employers.
Housing can be made affordable either by increasing wages or reducing the net costs of housing, which are often influenced by transportation, energy, land, construction, regulatory and financing factors. In some rural Idaho communities, workers must often commute long distances to find housing within their budget, while the cost to heat or cool inefficient housing can exceed rent. So we created the ‘HUT (Housing + Utilities +Transportation) Index’ to hint at real-world cost considerations.
We hope to update and expand these resources to be more useful to local and state policy makers and housing stakeholders. This data can help inform a larger statewide housing needs assessment and resource allocation process. See also “What Every City and County Needs to Know’ for additional information from the 2011 Analysis of Impediments.
County data sets for demographics, poverty and housing/transportation cost burden.
- 2014 Idaho County Demographic and Housing Data V2 PDF
- 2018 Idaho County Level Demographic and Housing Data*
*The contractor for the 2014 version based ‘cost-burden’ data on the American Community Survey, while the contractor for the 2018 release used cost-burden estimates from HAMFI and CHAS data, a subset of the ACS estimate.
Perspectives on housing markets and needs assessment
- Housing market overview Idaho v12_1_19
- Creating workforce housing: sample business leader survey
- Housing Needs-Assessment 5_14_19
U.S. housing market: impressions, impacts and implications
- Breaking Down the Barriers to Affordable Housing
- MacArthur Foundation “How Housing Matters” study April 2014
- The Unintended Consequences of Housing Finance
- HUD’s Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse
- HUD Form 27300 – America’s Affordable Communities Initiative
Housing Market Challenges
- Impacts of Vacation Homes and Short-Term Rentals on Housing Affordability in Ketchum, Idaho (36″ x 48″ wall summary poster)
Affordability matters
- Driving a Vibrant Economy: Housing’s Role in Colorado’s Economic Success
- Housing Affordability Burden for U.S. Cities
- Federal Rental Assistance Fact Sheet
- National and State Fact Sheets Data
- Idaho Fact Sheet: Federal Rental Assistance
- Economic and household income projections for Idaho
- Cost burden maps from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Housing and Transportation: location-based costs
- Creating Connected Communities (HUD/CPD)
- Affordable housing and transit should go hand-in-hand
- 12 ways developers can guide tenants to better transportation decisions
- Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
Tiny Houses and Personal Shelters: implications and opportunities for housing, planning and economic development professionals
- Next Steps for Small-Footprint Housing (2016 APA/Idaho Conference)
- Tiny Houses, and the Not-So-Tiny Questions They Raise
- Get Small Think Big: Housing for a New Economy and Legal Landscape (2015 APA/Idaho Chapter Conference)
- Sustainable Building Codes
- Idaho Division of Building Safety – Tiny Houses, Manufactured Homes, Modular Buildings and Recreational Buildings
- NEW! 12/07/2016 History is Made: Tiny Houses Approved, Incorporated into IRC
NEW! 2019 Presentations
10/2019 APA Idaho Chapter – Twin Falls, ID
The Rural Housing & Homelessness Puzzle
7/2019 NW Community Development Institute
2019 Housing as a Second Language
6/2019 Association of Idaho Cities
Housing and Community_Planning for the Future
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute
Housing and Community_Designing for the Future
2017 Presentations
10/2017 Idaho Chapter/APA Conference Presentations
Links to resources:
- House flipping activity
- UN report on housing / Habitat III
- Vancouver housing crisis threatens economy
- How 1,379 Affordable Housing Programs Stack Up
- New Urban Agenda Habitat III
- Ketchum Short-Term Rental Study
2017 NW Community Development Institute
Housing as a Second Language (2017 update)
Related stories and links
- Happy Birthday Dodd-Frank!
- Toronto’s Unpredictable Housing Market
- Commodification of Housing
- Vancouver Addresses Short-Term Rental Issue
- Swiss Communities Fight the Property Bubble Effect
- Housing No Longer Viewed As Human Right (UN Report)
- House Rules: History of the Fair Housing Act
2017 Association of Idaho Cities Conference
Housing Markets: Essential Trends and Strategies
2016 Materials
10/2016 Idaho Chapter/APA Conference Presentations
Next Steps for Small-Footprint Housing
Resources
- The-unintended-consequences-of-housing-finance
- We’re building more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments
- Planning Behind
- (see also Tiny House section above)
Communities for Life: Aging-in-Place
Resources
The Changing Face of Fair Housing: Assessment of Fair Housing
Resources
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (presentation by BBC Research and Consulting)
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
- Federal Housing Spending Poorly Matched to Need
- Idaho Fact Sheet 2015: Federal Rental Assistance
- Housing Choice Voucher Utilization Data by State
- Rental listing and locator services: www.housingidaho.com
- Landlord RackCard_Layout_2015
2016 NW CDI Course—Third Year: Housing as a Second Language