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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 help, or engaging in other housing-related activities.
Complaint Form
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 companies, 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 team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
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Join us on every very first and third Tuesday from 10:00 – 11:00 (CST) where we talk about Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a free webinar for those thinking about their rights or those that manage or own residential or commercial properties.
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Fair Housing Information
Find info 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 because of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:
– Refuse to lease or sell housing.
– Refuse to work out for housing.
– Otherwise make housing not available.
– Set various terms, conditions or benefits for sale or leasing of a house.
– Provide a person different housing services or facilities.
– Falsely deny that housing is readily available for evaluation, sale or rental.
– Make, print or publish any notification, statement or ad with regard to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, constraint or discrimination.
– Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
– Use different credentials criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as earnings requirements, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
– Evict an occupant or an occupant’s visitor.
– Harass an individual.
– Fail or delay performance of maintenance or repair work.
– Limit benefits, services or centers of a residence.
– Discourage the purchase or rental of a house.
– Assign a person to a particular structure or neighborhood or section of a building or community.
– For earnings, encourage, or try to persuade, homeowners to offer their homes by recommending that individuals of a specific secured characteristic will move into the community (blockbusting).
– Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance since of the race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or occupants of a home.
– Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or realty brokers’ organization.
In Mortgage Lending:
It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based on race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin:
– Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary help for a home.
– Refuse to offer information relating to loans.
– Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various interest rates, points, or charges.
– Discriminate in appraising a home.
– Condition the accessibility of a loan on an individual’s reaction to harassment.
– Refuse to buy a loan.
Harassment:
The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to pester persons since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.
Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
It is prohibited discrimination to:
– Threaten, coerce, frighten or disrupt anyone exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
– Retaliate versus an individual who has submitted a fair housing complaint or helped in a fair housing examination.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible accommodation is a change, exception, or change to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to make sensible accommodations to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be essential to pay for persons with specials needs an equivalent opportunity to use and delight in a home and public and common use locations.
In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing provider from declining to allow, at the expense of the individual with a special needs, sensible modifications of existing facilities occupied or to be occupied by such person if such modifications might be needed to manage such individual full satisfaction of the properties.
What is Needed for a Complaint
To submit a housing discrimination grievance these requirements need to be met:
– The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
– The residential or commercial property owner, in the majority of cases, need to have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family residences.
