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    Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

    The Fair Housing Act secures individuals 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 submit a complaint about an offense of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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    We provide trainings for housing providers, residential or commercial property management and those involved in housing services.

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

    Monthly Webinar

    Join us on every very first and third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a complimentary 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 details below on who and what is covered under the law.

    The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing because 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, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin:

    - Refuse to rent or offer housing.
    - Refuse to negotiate for housing.
    - Otherwise make housing not available.
    - Set various terms, conditions or privileges for sale or leasing of a dwelling.
    - Provide a person different housing services or facilities.
    - Falsely reject that housing is readily available for assessment, sale or leasing.
    - Make, print or release any notification, declaration or advertisement with respect to the sale or leasing of a home that shows any choice, limitation or discrimination.
    - Impose various list prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a house.
    - Use various qualification requirements or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as income requirements, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
    - Evict an occupant or a renter's visitor.
    - Harass an individual.
    - Fail or delay efficiency of maintenance or repair work.
    - Limit benefits, services or centers of a residence.
    - Discourage the purchase or rental of a residence.
    - Assign an individual to a particular building or neighborhood or section of a structure or community.
    - For profit, encourage, or try to encourage, house owners to offer their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular secured quality are about to move into the area (blockbusting).
    - Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance coverage since of the race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a residence.
    - Deny access to or subscription in any numerous listing service or realty brokers' company.
    In Mortgage Lending:

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

    - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other monetary assistance for a house.
    - Refuse to offer info concerning loans.
    - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rate of interest, points, or fees.
    - Discriminate in assessing a home.
    - Condition the schedule of a loan on a person's response to harassment.
    - Refuse to acquire a loan.
    Harassment:

    The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bother individuals due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.

    Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

    It is unlawful discrimination to:

    - Threaten, coerce, frighten or hinder anyone working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
    - Retaliate against a person who has 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 guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to make affordable accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be necessary to manage individuals with specials needs a level playing field to utilize and take pleasure in a residence and public and common use locations.

    In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from refusing to allow, at the cost of the individual with a special needs, sensible adjustments of existing properties inhabited or to be inhabited by such person if such adjustments might be essential to pay for such person complete pleasure of the facilities.

    What is Needed for a Grievance

    To send a housing discrimination problem these requirements must be fulfilled:

    - The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.
    - The residential or commercial property owner, for the most part, should have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family residences.
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