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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, looking for housing help, or engaging in other housing-related activities.
   
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   If you require to submit a complaint about an infraction of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
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   We offer trainings for housing service providers, residential or commercial property management and those involved in housing services.
   
   Our trainings are offered practically 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 first and third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free webinar for those interested in their rights or those that handle or own residential or commercial properties.
   
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Fair Housing Information

Find info 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 prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to lease or sell housing.
- Refuse to negotiate for housing.
- Otherwise make housing not available.
- Set different terms, conditions or benefits for sale or rental of a residence.
- Provide a person various housing services or facilities.
- Falsely reject that housing is available for evaluation, sale or rental.
- Make, print or release any notification, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a house that indicates any choice, constraint or discrimination.
- Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a house.
- Use different certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as income standards, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
- Evict a tenant or an occupant's visitor.
- Harass an individual.
- Fail or delay efficiency of upkeep or repair work.
- Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a home.
- Discourage the purchase or rental of a residence.
- Assign an individual to a specific building or community or section of a structure or neighborhood.
- For earnings, persuade, or attempt to convince, homeowners to offer their homes by recommending that people of a specific safeguarded quality will move into the community (blockbusting).
- Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance since of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a house.
- Deny access to or subscription 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, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary help for a home.
- Refuse to provide details relating to loans.
- Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rates of interest, points, or fees.
- Discriminate in evaluating a home.
- Condition the accessibility of a loan on an individual's response to harassment.
- Refuse to acquire a loan.
Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bug individuals due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this prohibits sexual harassment.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is prohibited discrimination to:

- Threaten, push, daunt or hinder anybody working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
- Retaliate versus a person who has actually filed a reasonable housing grievance or helped in a fair housing investigation.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a modification, exception, or modification to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to clear up lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations might be required to afford persons with disabilities a level playing field to use and take pleasure in a dwelling and public and typical use locations.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing provider from refusing to permit, at the expense of the individual with a disability, affordable adjustments of existing properties inhabited or to be inhabited by such individual if such adjustments might be required to pay for such individual full pleasure of the premises.

What is Needed for a Grievance

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

- The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
- The residential or owner, most of the times, should have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family residences.