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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they are leasing or buying 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 send a complaint about an infraction of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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

Our trainings are offered practically and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or get in touch with the training group at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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Join us on every first and third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we discuss Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free webinar for those interested in their rights or those that manage or own residential or commercial properties.

Register Online.


Fair Housing Information

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

The Fair Housing Act forbids 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 illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to rent or offer housing.

- Refuse to work out for housing.

- Otherwise make housing not available.

- Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or leasing of a home.

- Provide an individual various housing services or facilities.

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

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

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

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

- Evict a tenant or an occupant's visitor.

- Harass an individual.

- Fail or delay performance of upkeep or repair work.

- Limit advantages, services or facilities of a home.

- Discourage the purchase or leasing of a dwelling.

- Assign an individual to a particular building or neighborhood or section of a structure or area.

- For revenue, convince, or try to persuade, homeowners to sell their homes by suggesting that individuals of a particular secured quality are about to move into the area (blockbusting).

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

- Deny access to or subscription in any multiple listing service or realty brokers' company.


In Mortgage Lending:

It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions based on race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary assistance for a dwelling.

- Refuse to offer details concerning loans.

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

- Discriminate in assessing a house.

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

- Refuse to buy a loan.


Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to bug individuals because of race, color, faith, 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 hinder anybody working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.

- Retaliate versus a person who has submitted a fair housing problem or helped in a reasonable housing examination.


Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable lodging is a modification, exception, or modification to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to make sensible lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be needed to manage individuals with disabilities a level playing field to utilize and enjoy a residence and public and typical use locations.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing service provider from refusing to allow, at the cost of the person with a disability, affordable adjustments of existing facilities occupied or to be inhabited by such individual if such modifications may be necessary to afford such individual complete satisfaction of the properties.

What is Needed for a Complaint

To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements should be met:

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

- The residential or commercial property owner, in many cases, should have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family homes.