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    Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

    The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they are leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing help, or participating in other housing-related activities.

    Complaint Form

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

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    We supply 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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    Fair Housing Information

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

    The Fair Housing Act restricts 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 since of race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:

    - Refuse to rent or sell housing.
    - Refuse to work out for housing.
    - Otherwise make housing unavailable.
    - Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or rental of a dwelling.
    - Provide a person various housing services or centers.
    - Falsely deny that housing is offered for inspection, sale or rental.
    - Make, print or publish any notification, declaration or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a home that shows any choice, limitation or discrimination.
    - Impose different sales rates or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
    - Use different qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as income requirements, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
    - Evict a renter or an occupant's guest.
    - Harass an individual.
    - Fail or delay efficiency of maintenance or repair work.
    - Limit benefits, services or centers of a house.
    - Discourage the purchase or rental of a residence.
    - Assign an individual to a particular building or community or section of a structure or community.
    - For profit, persuade, or try to encourage, homeowners to offer their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular protected characteristic are about to move into the community (blockbusting).
    - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance since of the race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a dwelling.
    - Deny access to or subscription in any several listing service or property brokers' company.
    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 nationwide origin:

    - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other monetary assistance for a home.
    - Refuse to supply details relating to loans.
    - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various interest rates, points, or costs.
    - Discriminate in evaluating a residence.
    - 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 unlawful to pester individuals due to the fact that of race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this forbids unwanted sexual advances.

    Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

    It is unlawful discrimination to:

    - Threaten, persuade, intimidate or interfere with anybody exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
    - Retaliate against a person who has actually filed a reasonable housing complaint or assisted in a fair housing examination.
    Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

    Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable lodging is a modification, exception, or change to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to clear up lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be required to afford individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to utilize and enjoy a dwelling and public and common use locations.

    In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing supplier from refusing to allow, at the expenditure of the person with a disability, affordable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments may be necessary to afford such person full satisfaction of the properties.

    What is Needed for a Problem

    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 many cases, should have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family houses.