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    Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

    The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they are renting or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing assistance, or taking part in other housing-related activities.

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    If you require to submit a problem about an offense of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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

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

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    Fair Housing Information

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

    The Fair Housing Act forbids discrimination in housing due to the fact that of:

    - Race.
    - Color.
    - National Origin.
    - Religion.
    - Sex.
    - Familial Status.
    - Disability.
    What Is Prohibited?

    In the Sale and Rental of Housing:

    It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin:

    - Refuse to rent or sell housing.
    - Refuse to work out for housing.
    - Otherwise make housing not available.
    - Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or leasing of a residence.
    - Provide a person different housing services or facilities.
    - Falsely deny that housing is offered for evaluation, sale or rental.
    - Make, print or release any notification, declaration or advertisement with respect to the sale or leasing of a home that suggests any preference, limitation or discrimination.
    - Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a home.
    - Use different qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as earnings requirements, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
    - Evict a tenant or a renter's visitor.
    - Harass an individual.
    - Fail or delay performance of upkeep or repair work.
    - Limit privileges, services or centers of a residence.
    - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a house.
    - Assign an individual to a specific structure or community or section of a structure or area.
    - For profit, persuade, or attempt to convince, property owners to sell their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular safeguarded characteristic will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
    - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance since of the race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or occupants of a dwelling.
    - Deny access to or membership in any multiple listing service or property brokers' company.
    In Mortgage Lending:

    It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin:

    - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other financial support for a house.
    - Refuse to provide info concerning loans.
    - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rates of interest, points, or charges.
    - Discriminate in evaluating a house.
    - Condition the schedule of a loan on a person's action to harassment.
    - Refuse to purchase a loan.
    Harassment:

    The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to harass individuals since of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. To name a few things, this forbids unwanted sexual advances.

    Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

    It is unlawful discrimination to:

    - Threaten, persuade, daunt or disrupt anybody working out a fair housing right or helping others who exercise the right.
    - Retaliate against a person who has actually filed a reasonable housing complaint or assisted in a reasonable housing investigation.
    Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

    Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable lodging is a change, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to make reasonable accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations might be needed to manage persons with specials needs an equivalent opportunity to use and take pleasure in a home and public and typical usage locations.

    In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing service provider from declining to allow, at the cost of the individual with a special needs, reasonable modifications of existing facilities occupied or to be inhabited by such person if such adjustments may be required to afford such individual full enjoyment of the properties.

    What is Needed for a Grievance

    To submit a housing discrimination grievance these requirements must be met:

    - The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
    - The residential or commercial property owner, in many cases, need to have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family residences.