Q I suspect that civil penalties for Fair Housing Act violations have gone up again this year. What are the new amounts and where I can find them?

Q I have a mixed-income site. The last issue of the Insider seemed to indicate that credit may be claimed on vacant units if reasonable attempts are being made to rent the unit and no units are rented to non-qualified households while the unit is vacant (see How to Make Sure Next Available Units Are Technically “Available”). Can vacant market units be rented even if there are vacant LIHTC units?

Q We manage a tax credit site that gets funding through the HOME program. A resident with disabilities recently asked us to install a ramp at the entrance to our site's community room so that he can access it using his wheelchair. We want the resident to pay for the ramp, but he's insisting that we're responsible for its cost because the community room is part of our site's common area. Must we pay to install the ramp?