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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

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

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

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

Our trainings are readily available virtually 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 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.

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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 illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions since of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to lease or sell housing.

- Refuse to negotiate for housing.

- Otherwise make housing unavailable.

- Set different terms, conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a house.

- Provide a person various housing services or centers.

- Falsely deny that housing is available for assessment, sale or leasing.

- Make, print or publish any notification, declaration or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a home that shows any preference, restriction or discrimination.

- Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.

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

- Evict a renter or an occupant's visitor.

- Harass a person.

- Fail or delay performance of upkeep or repair work.

- Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a home.

- Discourage the purchase or leasing of a home.

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

- For revenue, convince, or try to convince, homeowners to sell their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular safeguarded characteristic are about to move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).

- Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance since of the race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a home.

- Deny access to or subscription in any several listing service or real estate brokers' company.


In Mortgage Lending:

It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based on race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other financial assistance for a home.

- Refuse to supply information concerning loans.

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

- Discriminate in assessing a house.

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

- Refuse to purchase a loan.


Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bug individuals because of race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin. To name a few things, this forbids sexual harassment.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is prohibited discrimination to:

- Threaten, coerce, intimidate or hinder anyone exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.

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


Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible accommodation is a modification, exception, or change to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to refuse to make sensible lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be required to afford persons with impairments a level playing field to use and enjoy a dwelling and public and common usage areas.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing supplier from refusing to permit, at the expenditure of the individual with a disability, affordable adjustments of existing properties inhabited or to be inhabited by such person if such modifications may be necessary to pay for such person full pleasure of the properties.

What is Needed for a Complaint

To submit a housing discrimination problem these requirements should be satisfied:

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

- The residential or commercial property owner, most of the times, must have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family homes.