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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   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 assistance, or taking part in other housing-related activities.
   
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   If you require to send a problem about a violation of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
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   We provide trainings for housing suppliers, residential or commercial property management and those involved in housing services.
   
   Our trainings are available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training group 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 discuss 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 information listed 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 ?

In the Sale and Rental of Housing:

It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to rent or sell housing.
- Refuse to negotiate for housing.
- Otherwise make housing not available.
- Set different terms, conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a dwelling.
- Provide a person various housing services or centers.
- Falsely reject that housing is offered for evaluation, sale or rental.
- Make, print or release any notification, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or leasing of a residence that indicates any choice, constraint or discrimination.
- Impose various sales rates or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a home.
- Use various qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as earnings standards, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
- Evict a renter or a tenant's visitor.
- Harass an individual.
- Fail or hold-up performance of upkeep or repair work.
- Limit advantages, services or centers of a home.
- Discourage the purchase or leasing of a home.
- Assign a person to a particular building or neighborhood or area of a building or community.
- For profit, convince, or try to convince, homeowners to sell their homes by suggesting that people of a particular safeguarded attribute will move into the area (blockbusting).
- Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance because of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or occupants of a dwelling.
- Deny access to or membership in any multiple listing service or real estate brokers' company.
In Mortgage Lending:

It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other financial assistance for a home.
- Refuse to provide information concerning loans.
- Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rates of interest, points, or charges.
- Discriminate in assessing a house.
- Condition the availability of a loan on a person's reaction to harassment.
- Refuse to purchase a loan.
Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to harass individuals since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. To name a few things, this forbids sexual harassment.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is illegal discrimination to:

- Threaten, persuade, daunt or hinder anybody exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
- Retaliate versus a person who has actually submitted a fair housing problem or assisted in a fair housing investigation.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a modification, exception, or change to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to make affordable lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be required to pay for individuals with specials needs an equal chance to utilize and take pleasure in a dwelling and public and typical use areas.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing supplier from refusing to permit, at the expenditure of the person with a disability, reasonable modifications of existing properties inhabited or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments might be required to afford such person complete enjoyment of the properties.

What is Needed for a Grievance

To submit a housing discrimination grievance these requirements must be fulfilled:

- 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 consist of multi-family dwellings.
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