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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

The Fair Housing Act protects individuals from discrimination when they are renting or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing help, or participating in other housing-related activities.

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If you require to send a complaint about a violation of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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We supply trainings for housing companies, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.

Our trainings are available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training group at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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Join us on every first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free webinar for those thinking about their rights or those that handle or own residential or commercial properties.

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Fair Housing Information

Find info below on who and what is covered under the law.

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing since of:

- Race.

- Color.

- National Origin.

- Religion.

- Sex.

- Familial Status.

- Disability.


What Is Prohibited?

In the Sale and Rental of Housing:

It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions because of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to lease or sell housing.

- Refuse to negotiate for housing.

- Otherwise make housing unavailable.

- Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or rental of a residence.

- Provide a person different housing services or centers.

- Falsely reject that housing is available for evaluation, sale or rental.

- Make, print or release any notice, declaration or ad with respect to the sale or rental of a residence that indicates any choice, limitation or discrimination.

- Impose different sales costs or rental charges for the sale or rental of a home.

- Use various certification requirements or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as income standards, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.

- Evict an occupant or an occupant's visitor.

- Harass an individual.

- Fail or delay performance of maintenance or repair work.

- Limit advantages, services or facilities of a home.

- Discourage the purchase or leasing of a residence.

- Assign a person to a specific structure or community or area of a building or neighborhood.

- For earnings, convince, or try to encourage, property owners to offer their homes by suggesting that individuals of a specific safeguarded characteristic are about to move into the area (blockbusting).

- Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance coverage because of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or occupants of a home.

- Deny access to or membership in any multiple listing service or genuine estate brokers' company.


In Mortgage Lending:

It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions based on race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary support for a house.

- Refuse to supply details concerning loans.

- Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different interest rates, points, or charges.

- Discriminate in assessing a house.

- Condition the accessibility of a loan on a person's response to harassment.

- Refuse to purchase a loan.


Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to harass persons since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is illegal discrimination to:

- Threaten, persuade, frighten or disrupt anybody working out a fair housing right or helping others who work out the right.

- Retaliate against an individual who has actually filed a reasonable housing complaint or helped in a fair housing investigation.


Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible lodging is a change, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to decline to clear up lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations might be necessary to afford individuals with disabilities an equivalent chance to utilize and enjoy a house and public and typical use locations.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing provider from refusing to permit, at the cost of the individual with a disability, sensible modifications of existing properties inhabited or to be inhabited by such person if such adjustments might be needed to manage such individual complete enjoyment of the properties.

What is Needed for a Complaint

To send a housing discrimination grievance these requirements must be fulfilled:

- The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.

- The residential or commercial property owner, in the majority of cases, should have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family houses.