Customers with Disabilities Resources

Assisting customers with disabilities

• February 2022 Legal Update: "Finding Accessible Homes for People with Disabilities"
• "Down Payment Assistance Programs," in the August 2017 Wisconsin Real Estate Magazine 
  
• "4 Tips for Buying a Home If You're Disabled," from April 2014 on realtor.com
• "Sorting Through Assistance Animal Requests" in the March 2020 Wisconsin Real Estate Magazine 
• HUD's animal notice

Wisconsin disability statutes

• Discrimination in Housing (Section 106.50)

Federal resources

• HUD's Disability Rights in Housing 
• The Fair Housing Act
• HUD's Reasonable Accommodations and Modifications  
• Joint Statement of The Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Department of Justice — Reasonable Accommodations Under the Fair Housing Act 
• Joint Statement of The Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Department of Justice — Reasonable Modifications Under the Fair Housing Act 
  
• ADA.gov

Funding and other home purchase resources

• Movin' Out
• Veteran's Administration Housing Grant for Disabled Veterans
  
• Housing Grants for People with Disabilities 2023

WRA legal resources

• Legal Updates — Persons with Disabilities
• Legal Hottips — Americans with Disabilities 
• Legal Hottips — Persons with Disabilities

Accessibility features reports

The Accessibility Features Reports (AFR) are property condition reports designed by the WRA Cultural Diversity in Housing Committee to identify features that may be desirable to a homebuyer with disabilities. The WRA Basic Sellers' Accessibility Features Report focuses on physical features or attributes of the seller’s home that would tend to be of the greatest interest to a buyer with mobility concerns. The WRA Sellers' Accessibility Features Report is in slightly larger font and includes more property features that persons with vision and hearing disabilities may desire as well as those with mobility challenges. These forms are also available in Transactions (zipForm Edition) and the WRA's subscription-based PDF Forms Library.

• Basic Sellers' Accessibility Features Report (2 pages) 
• Sellers' Accessibility Features Report (5 pages)