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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

The Fair Housing Act secures people from discrimination when they are renting or buying a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing help, or participating in other housing-related activities.

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If you need to send a problem about an offense of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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

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

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Join us on every first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we talk about Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a free webinar for those interested in their rights or those that manage 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 since 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, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to rent or offer housing.
- Refuse to negotiate for housing.
- Otherwise make housing unavailable.
- Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or leasing of a dwelling.
- Provide an individual various housing services or centers.
- Falsely reject that housing is available for assessment, sale or leasing.
- Make, print or release any notification, statement or ad with respect to the sale or leasing of a dwelling that suggests any preference, constraint or discrimination.
- Impose different sales costs or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
- Use different qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
- Evict a renter or a tenant's guest.
- Harass a person.
- Fail or delay efficiency of maintenance or repairs.
- Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a residence.
- Discourage the purchase or rental of a house.
- Assign an individual to a particular structure or neighborhood or area of a building or area.
- For earnings, persuade, or try to persuade, property owners to offer their homes by suggesting that individuals of a particular safeguarded attribute will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
- Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance coverage since of the race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or occupants of a home.
- Deny access to or membership in any numerous listing service or realty brokers' organization.
In Mortgage Lending:

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

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other financial support for a home.
- Refuse to offer details relating to loans.
- Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rate of interest, points, or costs.
- Discriminate in assessing a house.
- Condition the accessibility of a loan on a person's action to harassment.
- Refuse to purchase a loan.
Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to pester individuals since of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. To name a few things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is prohibited discrimination to:

- Threaten, persuade, frighten or disrupt anyone working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
- Retaliate against a person who has actually filed a fair housing problem or assisted in a fair housing investigation.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a change, exception, or adjustment to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to refuse to clear up accommodations to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations might be essential to pay for persons with impairments a level playing field to utilize and delight in a home and public and common use locations.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing provider from refusing to permit, at the expense of the individual with a special needs, affordable adjustments of existing properties inhabited or to be occupied by such person if such modifications may be needed to pay for such person complete satisfaction of the properties.

What is Needed for a Problem

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

- The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
- The residential or commercial property owner, most of the times, need to have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family homes.