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Davenport schedules landlord informational sessions, two-day fair-housing training
Summary
Housing authority staff announced a series of landlord informational sessions in August and a two-day civil-rights/fair-housing training on July 21 to help onboard private landlords and update the authority's policies and procedures.
Housing authority staff told the Davenport Housing Commission on July 21 that they will offer landlord informational sessions in August and a two-day civil-rights and fair-housing training to update policies and educate staff.
Malia, housing authority staff, said staff have requested two days of training through Nia McKay, the company that developed the authority’s administrative plan, and described the sessions as covering "legalities with regards to civil rights, VAWA, the victims, Violence Against Women's Act, and Fair Housing," and how housing authorities are required to respond. She said the training is intended to update the authority’s policies and reduce legal risk.
Malia and housing coordinator and inspector Troy Sullivan said they will lead four landlord informational sessions in August — Aug. 13, 14, 19 and 20 — plus an evening session to accommodate working landlords. Sessions will be held in Council chambers and are currently capped at 10 participants per session; staff said they will add sessions in September if demand requires it. Topics include changes in inspection modules (from the Inspire module to the HQS module) and an opportunity for landlords to ask questions about program regulations.
Malia said the authority sent an email to landlords in its database to invite participation and had 11 registrations at the time of the meeting. She said the outreach aims to reach small private landlords and new developers who have not interacted with the program before.
Commission members asked whether the civil-rights/fair-housing training could be conducted in-house by the city’s office of civil rights; Malia said the proposed training is specific to housing-authority obligations and practices, which differ from general public housing complaint handling.
Malia also said staff plan to schedule the commission’s required annual conflict-of-interest refresher and will reach out to Nicole to arrange it.
No commission action was taken on these trainings or the landlord sessions during the meeting; staff are conducting outreach and registration as part of program administration.
