By acting to prevent harassment, wise landlords can enhance their reputations. A residential complex that is in turmoil due to harassment and bullying will soon gain a bad reputation that reflects on the management company and landlord.
It is good business practice to stop harassment & bullying. But while there may be risk of legal exposure sufficient to motivate action by landlords, there are other excellent business reasons to prevent bullying and harassment. In reaction to the proposed rule, many providers of housing-public, private, subsidized, affordable, or market rate-rushed to decry government intervention, reject any responsibility for tenant relations, and set their legal teams to work. This rule would impose clear responsibility on the housing provider for any acts of harassment. On October 21, 2015, HUD proposed a rule that would formalise and define harassment in order to protect important rights of persons covered by the Fair Housing Act in their home.
Preventing and remedying harassment, a form of bullying, may not seem like the legal responsibility of the housing provider-but it is, according to state and federal authorities.
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