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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

The Fair Housing Act secures people from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing help, or engaging in other housing-related activities.

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

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We provide trainings for housing suppliers, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.

Our trainings are readily available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or get in touch with the training group 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 discuss Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally 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 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 illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions since of race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to lease or offer housing.

- Refuse to negotiate for housing.

- Otherwise make housing not available.

- Set different terms, conditions or advantages for sale or leasing of a dwelling.

- Provide a person different housing services or centers.

- Falsely deny that housing is readily available for evaluation, sale or rental.

- Make, print or publish any notice, declaration or advertisement with respect to the sale or leasing of a residence that suggests any preference, restriction or discrimination.

- Impose different sales costs or rental charges for the sale or rental of a residence.

- Use various certification requirements or applications, or sale or rental standards or treatments, such as earnings standards, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.

- Evict a tenant or a tenant's guest.

- Harass an individual.

- Fail or delay performance of maintenance or repair work.

- Limit benefits, services or centers of a home.

- Discourage the purchase or leasing of a dwelling.

- Assign a person to a specific building or community or area of a structure or community.

- For profit, encourage, or try to convince, homeowners to sell their homes by recommending that people of a specific safeguarded quality will move into the area (blockbusting).

- Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance coverage since of the race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a house.

- Deny access to or subscription in any multiple listing service or realty brokers' company.


In Mortgage Lending:

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

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other financial help for a home.

- Refuse to provide info concerning loans.

- Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rate of interest, points, or costs.

- Discriminate in appraising a home.

- Condition the availability of a loan on an individual's reaction to harassment.

- Refuse to purchase a loan.


Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to pester persons since of race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin. Among other things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is prohibited discrimination to:

- Threaten, coerce, daunt or interfere with anyone exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who work out the right.

- Retaliate versus an individual who has actually filed a fair housing problem or assisted in a reasonable housing investigation.


Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a modification, exception, or change to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to make affordable lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations might be necessary to pay for persons with disabilities an equal opportunity to use and delight in a house and public and common usage areas.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing supplier from declining to allow, at the expenditure of the individual with a disability, affordable adjustments of existing premises inhabited or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments might be necessary to pay for such person complete enjoyment of the facilities.

What is Needed for a Problem

To submit a housing discrimination problem these requirements need to be fulfilled:

- The residential or commercial property needs to be within the state of Texas.

- The residential or commercial property owner, for the most part, need to have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family residences.