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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

The Fair Housing Act secures people from discrimination when they are renting or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing support, or taking part in other housing-related activities.

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

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

Our trainings are available virtually and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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Join us on every very first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we discuss Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a complimentary webinar for those thinking about their rights or those that handle or own residential or commercial properties.

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Fair Housing Information

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

The Fair Housing Act restricts 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 prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to lease or sell housing.

- Refuse to work out for housing.

- Otherwise make housing unavailable.

- Set various terms, conditions or benefits for sale or leasing of a house.

- Provide a person different housing services or centers.

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

- Make, print or publish any notice, declaration or ad with regard to the sale or leasing of a dwelling that indicates any preference, constraint or discrimination.

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

- Use different credentials requirements or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as income requirements, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.

- Evict a renter or a renter's visitor.

- Harass a person.

- Fail or delay performance of upkeep or repair work.

- Limit privileges, services or facilities of a home.

- Discourage the purchase or rental of a residence.

- Assign an individual to a specific structure or community or section of a structure or area.

- For earnings, encourage, or try to encourage, property owners to sell their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular secured quality will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).

- Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance due to the fact that of the race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or occupants of a residence.

- Deny access to or subscription in any numerous listing service or genuine estate brokers' company.


In Mortgage Lending:

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

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other financial support for a home.

- Refuse to offer info relating to loans.

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

- Discriminate in assessing a house.

- Condition the accessibility of a loan on an individual's reaction to harassment.

- Refuse to acquire a loan.


Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to bother persons since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this forbids sexual harassment.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is illegal discrimination to:

- Threaten, persuade, frighten or interfere with anybody working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.

- Retaliate against an individual who has actually submitted a fair housing problem or helped in a fair housing examination.


Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a change, exception, or change to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to refuse to make reasonable lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be needed to pay for persons with disabilities an equal opportunity to utilize and take pleasure in a dwelling and public and common use areas.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from refusing to allow, at the expense of the person with a special needs, reasonable modifications of existing facilities inhabited or to be inhabited by such individual if such adjustments may be necessary to manage such individual full satisfaction of the premises.

What is Needed for a Complaint

To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements need to be met:

- The residential or commercial property needs to 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 consist of multi-family dwellings.