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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

The Fair Housing Act secures people from discrimination when they are leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities.

Complaint Form

If you require to send a grievance about an offense of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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We supply trainings for housing 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 call the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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Join us on every very first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over 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 listed below on who and what is covered under the law.

The Fair Housing Act forbids 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 because of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to rent or offer housing.
- Refuse to negotiate for housing.
- Otherwise make .
- Set various terms, conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a home.
- Provide an individual various housing services or facilities.
- Falsely reject that housing is available for evaluation, sale or leasing.
- Make, print or publish any notification, declaration or ad with regard to the sale or rental of a home that shows any choice, restriction or discrimination.
- Impose various list prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
- Use various certification requirements or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
- Evict a renter or an occupant's guest.
- Harass a person.
- Fail or hold-up performance of maintenance or repairs.
- Limit opportunities, services or centers of a dwelling.
- Discourage the purchase or rental of a dwelling.
- Assign an individual to a specific building or community or section of a structure or area.
- For earnings, encourage, or attempt to convince, house owners to sell their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular safeguarded quality will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
- Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance coverage because of the race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a residence.
- Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or real estate brokers' organization.
In Mortgage Lending:

It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other financial assistance for a residence.
- Refuse to supply details concerning loans.
- Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rates of interest, points, or charges.
- Discriminate in evaluating a dwelling.
- Condition the availability of a loan on an individual's action to harassment.
- Refuse to buy a loan.
Harassment:

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

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is prohibited discrimination to:

- Threaten, persuade, daunt or disrupt anybody working out a fair housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
- Retaliate against a person who has actually submitted a reasonable housing grievance or assisted in a fair housing examination.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a change, exception, or adjustment to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to clear up accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be needed to pay for individuals with disabilities a level playing field to utilize and take pleasure in a residence and public and typical use areas.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing provider from declining to permit, at the expenditure of the person with a disability, affordable modifications of existing facilities occupied or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments may be essential to pay for such person complete pleasure of the premises.

What is Needed for a Grievance

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

- The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.
- The residential or commercial property owner, for the most part, should have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family dwellings.