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Report Housing Discrimination

If you think your rights may have been breached, we encourage you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time frame on when a claims can be filed with HUD after an alleged offense, you must report housing discrimination as soon as possible. When reporting housing discrimination, please offer as much info as possible, including:

Your name and address

The name and address of the person(s) or organization your accusation protests

The address or other identification of the housing or program involved

A short description of the event(s) that cause you to believe your rights were violated

The date(s) of the alleged violation

Online

You can Report Housing Discrimination with FHEO online in English (also readily available in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali)

Report Now > or

Phone

We speak your language! Talk with an FHEO intake expert by calling:

1-800-669-9777

or

Mail

You can print out this kind (also offered in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali) and mail it to your local FHEO workplace at the address on this list.

Assistance for Persons with Disabilities

HUD welcomes and is prepared to get calls from individuals who are deaf or tough of hearing, along with people with speech or communication specials needs. To discover more about how to make an available telephone call, please visit Telecommunications Relay Service - TRS.

Assistance for Persons with Limited English Proficiency

You can report housing discrimination in any language. For individuals with limited English efficiency, HUD offers interpreters. HUD likewise provides a Spanish language version of the online report housing discrimination form. You can discover descriptions of your fair housing rights in a number of languages other than English here.

It is unlawful to strike back against any individual for making an allegation, affirming, helping, or taking part in any manner in a proceeding under HUD's allegation process at any time, even after the examination has actually been finished. The Fair Housing Act also makes it prohibited to strike back against any person because that person reported a prejudiced practice to a housing service provider or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act also makes it illegal for a public housing firm, owner, or manager of housing assisted under a VAWA covered housing program to strike back versus someone for looking for or exercising VAWA protections for themself or another. This includes protection for people who testify, help, or take part in any VAWA matter on their own, or another's, behalf. If you believe you have actually experienced retaliation, you can report housing discrimination.

FHEO investigates accusations, which might be one or both of the list below types:

Discrimination in leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing support, or taking part in other housing-related activities

Fair Housing Act (race, color, nationwide origin, faith, sex, special needs, familial status)

Anyone who has been or will be harmed by an inequitable housing practice

Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property supervisors, designers, realty representatives, mortgage loan providers, homeowners associations, insurance coverage providers, and others who impact housing opportunities

Discrimination and other violations of civil rights in HUD programs (for example, failure to ensure significant gain access to by persons with restricted English proficiency)

Title VI of the Civil Liberty Act of 1964 (race, color, national origin); Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (race, color, national origin, religious beliefs, sex); Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (special needs); Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (special needs); Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (impairment); Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (age); Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (sex)

Anyone

Any recipient or subrecipient of HUD monetary support, States, city governments, and personal entities running housing and neighborhood advancement and other kinds of services, programs, or activities

How Your Rights May Have Been Violated

Discrimination in accessing housing or support, being forced out from housing, or having your assistance ended because you are a survivor of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; failure to receive notice of occupancy rights or certification type under VAWA; being rejected housing or housing-related rights or otherwise punished for reporting crimes and emergencies; or being retaliated versus for looking for or exercising VAWA rights on your own or another.

Law and Protected Classes

Violence Against Women Act (survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual attack, stalking; certain VAWA securities apply despite being a survivor (right to report criminal offenses and emergency situations; protections from retaliation)).

Who May File an Accusation

Anyone who has actually been or will be damaged by an inequitable housing practice under VAWA.

Who May Have a Claims Filed Against Them

With regard to most of the Violence Against Women Act, any specific or entity under a covered housing program that has duty for the administration and/or oversight of VAWA protections, consisting of a public housing firm, sponsor, owner, mortgager, manager, State and local government or its firm, nonprofit or for-profit organization or entity. Additionally, allegations might be submitted against anybody who violates the right to report crimes and emergency situations.

Privacy Act Statement: The information sent to HUD may be utilized to investigate and process claims of housing and other types of discrimination. It may be revealed for lawful investigatory purposes, including to the U.S. Department of Justice for its use in the filing of pattern and practice fits of housing discrimination or the prosecution of the individual(s) who dedicated the discrimination where violence is included; the general public, where appropriate; and to State or local reasonable housing companies that administer significantly equivalent fair housing laws for allegation processing. Though disclosure of the information is voluntary, failure to supply some or all of the inquired might lead to the hold-up or rejection of help with your housing discrimination claims.