TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Washington’s largest provider of senior housing says it will retrain employees on disability rights and work with a Tacoma nonprofit to accommodate disabled residents.
The agreement by Seattle-based Senior Housing Assistance Group resolves a complaint that Fair Housing Center of Washington filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last fall.
SHAG’s executive director Jay Woolford told The News Tribune (https://goo.gl/RxjK5p) the group did not intend to discriminate and that it tries to accommodate people as best as it can.
The Fair Housing Center says prior to filing the complaint it sent testers to SHAG properties to see if potential residents with disabilities were treated differently than those who did not have a disability. The group says accommodation requests, such as a grab bar in a shower to prevent falls, were not considered.
SHAG houses 5,000 seniors in Pierce, Thurston, King, Snohomish and Whatcom counties.
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Information from: The News Tribune, https://www.thenewstribune.com
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