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    Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

    The Fair Housing Act secures individuals from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing support, or participating in other housing-related activities.

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    If you need to submit a grievance about a violation of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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    We offer trainings for housing service providers, residential or commercial property management and those included in housing services.

    Our trainings are offered practically and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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    Fair Housing Information

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

    The Fair Housing Act restricts 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, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, 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 opportunities for sale or rental of a dwelling.
    - Provide a person various housing services or centers.
    - Falsely reject that housing is readily available for inspection, sale or rental.
    - Make, print or release any notification, statement or advertisement with regard to the sale or rental of a home that indicates any choice, constraint or discrimination.
    - Impose different list prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a house.
    - Use different credentials requirements or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
    - Evict a renter or a tenant's visitor.
    - Harass an individual.
    - Fail or delay performance of maintenance or repairs.
    - Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a house.
    - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a home.
    - Assign a person to a specific building or community or section of a building or neighborhood.
    - For revenue, encourage, or try to convince, homeowners to sell their homes by suggesting that people of a specific protected attribute will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
    - Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance since of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or occupants of a home.
    - Deny access to or subscription in any numerous listing service or realty brokers' organization.
    In Mortgage Lending:

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

    - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other financial help for a home.
    - Refuse to provide info regarding loans.
    - Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rate of interest, points, or charges.
    - Discriminate in assessing a dwelling.
    - Condition the availability of a loan on an individual's reaction to harassment.
    - Refuse to buy a loan.
    Harassment:

    The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to bug individuals since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this forbids sexual harassment.

    Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

    It is illegal discrimination to:

    - Threaten, coerce, daunt or interfere with anybody exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
    - Retaliate versus an individual who has actually submitted a fair housing complaint or assisted in a reasonable housing examination.
    Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

    Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a change, exception, or modification to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to clear up accommodations to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be essential to afford persons with specials needs a level playing field to utilize and delight in a home and public and common usage areas.

    In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing provider from refusing to allow, at the expense of the person with an impairment, sensible adjustments of existing facilities inhabited or to be occupied by such individual if such modifications might be needed to manage such individual full satisfaction of the facilities.

    What is Needed for a Complaint

    To submit a housing discrimination problem these requirements need to be fulfilled:

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