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    Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

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

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    If you need to submit a problem about a violation of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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

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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 due to the fact that of race, color, religion, 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 different terms, conditions or advantages for sale or leasing of a house.
    - Provide an individual various housing services or facilities.
    - Falsely reject that housing is readily available for examination, sale or leasing.
    - Make, print or release any notice, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a home that suggests any preference, restriction or discrimination.
    - Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a residence.
    - Use different qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or treatments, such as income requirements, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
    - Evict a tenant or an occupant's guest.
    - Harass a person.
    - Fail or hold-up performance of upkeep or repairs.
    - Limit privileges, services or centers of a home.
    - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a dwelling.
    - Assign an individual to a specific structure or community or area of a building or community.
    - For earnings, persuade, or try to convince, homeowners to sell their homes by recommending that people of a particular safeguarded quality are about to move into the area (blockbusting).
    - Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance coverage due to the fact that of the race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a house.
    - Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or property brokers' organization.
    In Mortgage Lending:

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

    - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other financial help for a residence.
    - Refuse to offer info concerning loans.
    - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rate of interest, points, or costs.
    - Discriminate in assessing a residence.
    - Condition the accessibility of a loan on a person's response to harassment.
    - Refuse to purchase a loan.
    Harassment:

    The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to pester individuals due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this forbids sexual harassment.

    Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

    It is illegal discrimination to:

    - Threaten, coerce, daunt or disrupt anybody working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
    - Retaliate versus a person who has filed a fair housing problem or assisted in a reasonable housing examination.
    Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

    Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a modification, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to make reasonable accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be necessary to pay for persons with specials needs an equal opportunity to utilize and take pleasure in a residence and public and common use locations.

    In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing company from declining to permit, at the cost of the individual with an impairment, affordable adjustments of existing facilities inhabited or to be occupied by such person if such adjustments may be required to manage such person complete satisfaction of the facilities.

    What is Needed for a Grievance

    To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements should be met:

    - The residential or commercial property should 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 include multi-family residences.