Housing and Rental Laws for Tenants with Disabilities

Event Description
Join attorney Stewart Pope and myeloma financial coach, Diahanna Vallentine, as they discuss housing and rental laws for tenants with disabilities (such as a cancer diagnosis). What are your rights when it comes to housing?
Come with questions!
Schedule & Agenda
Speakers & Moderators

Audrey joined the Myeloma Crowd as the Community Manager in 2020 after previously working in the nonprofit field for 4 years as a director of Fundraising and Development. She graduated from BYU with a major in Spanish and Nonprofit Management. Audrey is passionate about serving others, loves learning, and enjoys a nice mug of hot chocolate no matter the weather.

Diahanna is the Financial Program Manager for the HealthTree Foundation. She specializes in providing financial help, resources and education for multiple myeloma patients. As a professional financial consultant and former caregiver of her husband who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, Diahanna perfectly understands the financial issues facing myeloma patients.

S. Stewart Pope is an attorney and serves as the Advocacy Director of Legal Aid Society of Louisville Kentucky, a non-profit, public interest law firm advocating on behalf of the low-income community. Mr. Pope has worked in the Housing and Consumer Units at Legal Aid Society concentrating his practice in the areas of Landlord Tenant Law, Foreclosure and Predatory Lending. He has conducted trainings and seminars designed to advise low-income individuals of their rights and responsibilities as tenants, how to avoid the snares of predatory lenders, the foreclosure process and alternatives to foreclosure. Mr. Pope has participated as a member of various task forces created to address and reduce the problem of foreclosure and vacant and abandoned properties in our community. Mr. Pope serves on the board of directors of the Continuum of Care that oversees the provision of homeless services in Jefferson County. Before coming to work for the Legal Aid Society, Mr. Pope worked as a private attorney with a practice concentrating in general civil and criminal law and as a real estate closing attorney. Mr. Pope has two children, three step-children and six grandchildren.
Join the Conversation
This event is part of the Financial Support group in HealthTree Connect, a social media platform for people with blood cancer. If you want to connect with other patients and caregivers and talk about this topic, join HealthTree Connect.
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