Practice Areas
Company Policies, Including Reasonable Accommodations
Let Equiveras ensure your company's current policies, leases, and property rules comply with the federal Fair Housing Act. If you don't have a written reasonable accommodation policy, let Equiveras help you create one that will ensure compliance and consistency in handling accommodation requests.
Reasonable Accommodation Consultation
Reasonable accommodation requests are a potential minefield. Equiveras can review accommodation requests and provide advice on next steps, giving you and your employees greater confidence in your responses and helping you maintain good relationships with your tenants.
Fair Housing Training
Ensure you and your employees understand your obligations under the federal Fair Housing Act, including often-misunderstood areas such as reasonable accommodations, reasonable modifications, and familial status discrimination. Equiveras can tailor a training to meet your specific needs.
Understand Multifamily Housing Accessibility Requirements
Developers, architects, and contractors are all responsible for compliance with the federal Fair Housing Act's accessibility requirements for multifamily housing. Equiveras can provide training tailored to your company's needs so you get it right from the beginning and avoid costly mistakes.
Fair Housing Consultation for Attorneys
Preparing or litigating a federal Fair Housing case? Benefit from 20 years of federal Fair Housing enforcement and litigation experience to help you make the best arguments for your clients and help your clients make the best decisions.
Other Services
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Federal Fair Housing law Lawyer
About Equiveras Legal Consulting, PLLC
Equiveras Legal Consulting provides expert legal advice and training to landlords, property managers, homeowners associations, developers, architects, builders, and others on their obligations under the federal Fair Housing Act. With more than 20 years of experience investigating violations, litigating and resolving cases, and tracking post-settlement compliance, I am uniquely positioned to address the challenges faced by companies in the rental housing and multifamily housing construction businesses.
Andrea Steinacker
Owner, Attorney, Consultant, and Trainer
In 2004, I was hired directly out of law school as a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division through the Attorney General's Honor's Program. I spent the next 20 years in the Division's Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, where I investigated and litigated cases alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public Accommodations), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and other statutes enforced by the Housing Section. In 2016 I applied and was selected for promotion to Special Litigation Counsel for Fair Housing. In that role I supervised investigations and cases, acted as lead attorney on complex litigation, consulted with case teams on litigation strategy and civil procedure, developed skills trainings for attorneys, and took on various responsibilities a member of the Housing Section's management team. I left the Civil Rights Division in October 2024 to return home to western Washington and open my own legal consulting practice.
I graduated cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in April 2004. I was admitted to the Washington State Bar in November 2004.