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  Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
  
  The Fair Housing Act secures individuals from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities.
  
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  If you require to send a complaint about a violation of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
  
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  We offer trainings for housing companies, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
  
  Our trainings are available practically and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or contact the training team 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 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 information 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 unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:
  
  - Refuse to rent or offer housing.
  - Refuse to negotiate for housing.
  - Otherwise make housing not available.
  - Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or leasing of a house.
  - Provide an individual various housing services or centers.
  - Falsely deny that housing is available for examination, sale or leasing.
  - Make, print or release any notice, statement or advertisement with regard to the sale or leasing of a house that suggests any choice, restriction or discrimination.
  - Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a home.
  - Use various certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as earnings standards, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
  - Evict a renter or a renter's visitor.
  - Harass an individual.
  - Fail or hold-up performance of maintenance or repairs.
  - Limit benefits, services or centers of a home.
  - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a home.
  - Assign a person to a particular structure or neighborhood or area of a building or area.
  - For earnings, convince, or try to persuade, property owners to sell their homes by recommending that individuals of a specific safeguarded characteristic will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
  - Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance coverage due to the fact that of the race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or occupants of a residence.
  - Deny access to or subscription in any numerous 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, disability, familial status, or national origin:
  
  - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary help for a dwelling.
  - Refuse to provide details regarding loans.
  - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rate of interest, points, or fees.
  - Discriminate in evaluating a dwelling.
  - Condition the availability of a loan on a person's action to harassment.
  - Refuse to buy a loan.
  Harassment:
  
  The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bother individuals because of race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this forbids sexual harassment.
  
  Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
  
  It is prohibited discrimination to:
  
  - Threaten, persuade, intimidate or disrupt anybody exercising a fair housing right or helping others who exercise the right.
  - Retaliate versus an individual who has actually submitted a fair housing complaint or helped in a fair housing investigation.
  Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
  
  Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable lodging is a change, exception, or modification to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to decline to make reasonable accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be needed to pay for individuals with impairments a level playing field to utilize and take pleasure in a home and public and typical use locations.
  
  In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing service provider from declining to permit, at the cost of the individual with a disability, affordable adjustments of existing facilities occupied or to be inhabited by such person if such adjustments may be essential to afford such person complete pleasure of the facilities.
  
  What is Needed for a Complaint
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  To send a housing discrimination grievance these requirements should be met:
  
  - The residential or commercial property must 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.