INDUSTRY NOTES: Warning: Non-Compliance Will Catch Up With You

Here's how one LA housing agency wound up under the federal microscope.

If you use federal funds to build or renovate housing, you'd better make sure those dwellings are accessible to all potential tenants -- or face a federal investigation.

That's the lesson Los Angeles' Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is learning after housing advocates alleged that the agency put apartments on the market that were completely inaccessible to people with disabilities.

Background: Disabled rights activists have claimed repeatedly that housing built or renovated through the city has violated provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the Los Angeles Times report......