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Report Housing Discrimination
If you think your rights may have been broken, we motivate you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time frame on when an allegation can be filed with HUD after an alleged offense, you must report housing discrimination as soon as possible. When reporting housing discrimination, please provide as much information as possible, including:
Your name and address
The name and address of the person(s) or company your claims is versus
The address or other recognition of the housing or program involved
A brief description of the occasion(s) that cause you to think your rights were breached
The date(s) of the supposed infraction
Online
You can Report Housing Discrimination with FHEO online in English (likewise offered 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 consumption professional by calling:
1-800-669-9777
or
You can print out this kind (also readily available in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali) and mail it to your regional FHEO office 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 individuals with speech or interaction specials needs. To read more about how to make an accessible telephone call, please check out Telecommunications Relay Service - TRS.
Assistance for Persons with Limited English Proficiency
You can report housing discrimination in any language. For persons with restricted English efficiency, HUD supplies interpreters. HUD also provides a Spanish language variation 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 illegal to retaliate versus anyone for making an accusation, affirming, helping, or getting involved in any way in a proceeding under HUD's accusation process at any time, even after the examination has been completed. The Fair Housing Act likewise makes it unlawful to retaliate versus any individual since that individual reported an inequitable practice to a housing supplier or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act also makes it unlawful for a public housing company, owner, or manager of housing assisted under a VAWA covered housing program to strike back against someone for looking for or exercising VAWA protections for themself or another. This includes security 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 examines claims, 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, national origin, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status)
Anyone who has actually been or will be harmed by a discriminatory housing practice
Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property supervisors, designers, property agents, mortgage loan providers, house owners associations, insurance coverage companies, and others who affect housing opportunities
Discrimination and other offenses of civil rights in HUD programs (for instance, failure to guarantee meaningful gain access to by individuals with limited 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, nationwide origin, faith, sex); Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (disability); Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (impairment); Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (disability); 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 private entities running housing and neighborhood development and other kinds of services, programs, or activities
How Your Rights May Have Been Violated
Discrimination in accessing housing or assistance, being kicked out from housing, or having your help terminated because you are a survivor of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual attack, or stalking; failure to receive notice of occupancy rights or accreditation kind under VAWA; being rejected housing or housing-related rights or otherwise penalized for reporting criminal offenses and emergency situations; or being retaliated versus for looking for or exercising VAWA rights for yourself or another.
Applicable Law and Protected Classes
Violence Against Women Act (survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual attack, stalking; particular VAWA protections apply regardless of being a survivor (right to report criminal activities and emergency situations; securities from retaliation)).
Who May File an Accusation
Anyone who has actually been or will be hurt by a prejudiced housing practice under VAWA.
Who May Have an Allegation Filed Against Them
With regard to most of the Violence Against Women Act, any private or entity under a covered housing program that has responsibility for the administration and/or oversight of VAWA defenses, including a public housing company, sponsor, owner, mortgager, supervisor, State and regional government or its company, not-for-profit or for-profit company or entity. Additionally, accusations may be filed against anybody who breaks the right to report criminal activities and emergencies.
Privacy Act Statement: The information submitted to HUD might be utilized to investigate and process claims of housing and other types of discrimination. It may be disclosed for legal investigatory purposes, consisting of to the U.S. Department of Justice for its usage in the filing of pattern and practice matches of housing discrimination or the prosecution of the person(s) who committed the discrimination where violence is included; the general public, where suitable; and to State or regional reasonable housing companies that administer substantially equivalent reasonable housing laws for claims processing. Though disclosure of the details is voluntary, failure to provide some or all of the asked for details may lead to the delay or rejection of assistance with your housing discrimination claims.
